adaptive immune Archives

Vitamin D, eNOS and NO – your partners in fighting SARS-CoV-2

3 October 2020

An Achilles heel Following on from our first article last month on key reasons why the UK government strategy & response have been so wrong and caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, this article outlines the key roles of vitamin D, endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS or NOS3) and nitric oxide in […]

Your immune system: ‘Make pumps four, person reported.’

3 May 2020

If you are old enough to remember London’s Burning (if not, it’s still shown on the Drama channel) you will recall that each programme would build toward the main event – a fire that was the culmination of every episode. Despite the show being about a single theme – fire – you never knew just […]

Downfall – a government awaits its fate. Your 14 days are almost up.

5 April 2020

This strapline is a variation of ‘a nation awaits its fate’ from the film Downfall. Even if you haven’t seen the rather excellent film, you have probably seen one of the myriad video parodies spawned by one particular scene (clue: it will include a roundabout or road in your area that gets really congested). As […]

Stop nucleic acid testing. Start antibody testing.

19 March 2020

Testing for whether an individual has the virus – so-called nucleic acid or RT-PCR testing – is largely pointless. The virus may have been contracted previously – weeks or potentially months earlier – and simply be present as the individual is ‘asymptomatic’, as are many individuals who test positive. Dead virus cells as well as […]