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Did you know theres been a way to easily cure almost any virus since at least 2011?
On July 27th, 2011, a paper was published in PLOS ONE describing a novel protein biologic antiviral. It was called DRACO, an acronym for Double-stranded RNA Activated Caspase Oligomerizer.

This research was performed at MIT’s Lincoln Labs and then moved into the Draper Laboratory and was funded by NIAID, DARPA, and DTRA. The Pentagon were after a broad-spectrum antivirus that could cure any viral infection, in case soldiers were exposed to an unknown pathogen for which no vaccine existed (i.e. a biowarfare agent). Dr. Todd Rider’s solution was to come up with a chimeric protein consisting of a dsRNA detection domain fused end-to-end with an apoptosis induction domain. These protein biologics were produced by being cultured in a bioreactor in E. Coli bacteria transfected with plasmids to produce DRACO proteins, similar to how recombinant insulin is produced.

It is possible to formulate different types of DRACOs, such as Protein Kinase R and Apoptotic protease activating factor-1, PKR and FADD, RNaseL and Apaf-1, et cetera. DRACOs all have the same mechanism of action. They take advantage of the fact that many viruses, including coronaviruses, produce long strands of dsRNA when they infect cells and replicate. Even viruses with ssRNA genomes like SARS-CoV-2 do this. Healthy cells, on the other hand, don’t have any long strands of dsRNA in them at all.

This is how it works:

1. DRACO proteins are injected into the subject.
2. The proteins use cell-penetrating peptides (like HIV TAT) to cross cell membranes and enter cells.
3. If there is no viral dsRNA present, the protein does nothing.
4. If there is viral dsRNA present, the dsRNA detection domain (such as PKR) binds to the dsRNA.
5. Multiple DRACOs bind side-by-side to the viral dsRNA.
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The exposed apoptosis induction domains of the DRACOs (such as Apaf-1) bind and crosslink procaspases and force the infected cell to self-destruct.

DRACOs are like little protein limpet mines that enter infected cells and command those cells to undergo apoptosis immediately if they find signs of viral infection, but are non-toxic to healthy tissue. This was proven experimentally in mouse models. They injected mice with DRACO, and then injected them with large quantities of influenza virus. Nothing happened to the DRACO treated mice when they were exposed to influenza. They were fine. In fact, they dissected the healthy DRACO-treated mice and confirmed that the DRACO proteins were non-toxic to uninfected cells.

DRACO proteins conferred practically ironclad protection against viruses that lasted up to a week after injection. All viruses. You see, viruses have ways of suppressing apoptosis pathways in cells, turning infected cells into practical zombies that can’t quite eliminate themselves before they replicate tons of viral particles. It makes a real mess. However, a protein that combines a dsRNA detection domain with an apoptosis induction domain completely bypasses the tricks and loopholes that viruses evolved to prevent apoptosis. Viruses don’t see DRACO coming. It completely destroys the cell the moment viral replication starts, shutting down the infection immediately while it’s still in a small population of cells. If DRACO is administered late, there is indeed more apoptosis and more inflammation, due to the larger population of affected cells. If it is administered prophylactically, before infection, viruses can’t even replicate in DRACO-treated cell populations at all, whether in vitro or in vivo. It puts a complete halt to it.
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Now, with results like these, the logical thing to do would be to engage in more animal testing, experimentally confirm (or refute) the effects, and, eventually, proceed to human trials. After all, in theory, DRACO could be combined with surveillance and contact tracing to completely arrest the spread of a pathogen before it even had a chance to become a pandemic. If it worked, and if it had minimal side effects, it would have become an invaluable tool in the epidemic control toolbox.

That wasn’t what happened.

In 2014, Todd Rider sought $2 million in additional grant funding from the Templeton Foundation to continue his work. However, during a reorganization at the Templeton Foundation, the grant fell through, and he was left with nothing. Desperate for money, he started a pair of Indiegogo campaigns to fund his research that also failed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iixl941ZL3E

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0022572
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Dr Todd Rider's website
https://riderinstitute.org/
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>>17071929
it would be anti semitic to fund this im afraid
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We've been working on practical uses for DRACO ever since then, it's not that easy
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>>17071929
Maybe he could beg some literal rich tech faggot.
A good bait would be to sell about some revolutionary treatment for AIDS, HPV or something.
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Cultured programming of DRACO's with AIDs and a gentle massage to get into all those hidden places worked.. we just didn't have the funding.
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>>17071929
>wall of medical jibber jabber
just take chlorine dioxide it cures everything
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>>17071929
The way they worded this really isnt helping him, it feels like they are mocking him. "Would you like at this guys? His treatment kills 15 whole viruses, just imagine what your immune system could to the trillions of viruses in your body now that 15 of them are off their shoulders"
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>>17071936
Buy an ad.
If something sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.

>If there is no viral dsRNA present, the protein does nothing.
We already tried injecting some carrier containing modified RNA into people's bodies, remember? I think it didn't work out so well. If his method is so easy and safe, it'd would have been done by other scientists long ago.
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Bump
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>>17071929
DRACOs break down in cells with high metabolisms within 2 weeks, its not practical to get long-lasting protection out of them
You would need to keep getting infused with more DRACOs to retain the protective effects, so at that point its worse than most vaccines which you only need to take once per 5-10 years
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>>17073381
>so at that point its worse than most vaccines which you only need to take once per 5-10 years
how come there are cases of people vaccinated against tetanus and with antibodies for it who still show symptoms for tetanus?
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>jewash hand sign
>draco
this is a bit suspicious



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