Destroying viruses at resonant frequency

Pandemic cardinally changed the world we live in. And, unfortunately, mutations of the coronavirus (with the Delta variant becoming the dominant one) make impact on the effectiveness of vaccines developed for the earlier Alpha variant. Our solution is to look at the problem differently. While vaccination will continue to play important part in the fight against coronavirus, why not to equip our hospitals, public transport and even ordinary people with the mobile tools that can destroy virus, using effect of the resonant and quickly tunable to the protein structure of existing and future variants. Resonant frequency is a known physical phenomen, and it's applicable not only to the big structures like bridges, but also tiny objects like viruses.

Response time to the virus mutations in the pharmaceutical industry is quite slow: you need at least several months to adjust the vaccine, conduct the tests, secure approvals from the authorities and, finally, release your new formula to the production line. By that time, there are potentially more newer variants / strains of the virus already spreading.

On the example of Covid, we could see the race between leading pharma companies to develop a vaccine (with efficiency of 76% and above), and then reports published by the same vendors and local health authorities that their vaccines are less effective against the new Kent, South Africa and Brazil variants of coronavirus.

Our solution focuses on the protective shell of the Covid virus to destroy it. High-tech generators may allow adjustments to the new constraints programmatically, by generating the signal at the required frequencies, reducing response time from months to, possibly, days or even hours.

Our solution is aimed to analyse the protein structures of the coronavirus' shell and then apply energy at its resonant frequency to cause ultimate damage. Using THz signals we may penetrate human bodies without causing harmful ionisation like X-rays. Initially, destruction of viruses at their resonant frequency can be used to sanitize hospitals and public transport. Moving forward, it may be used as a medical equipment to treat people with severe symptoms at the hospitals. Solution relies on the protein structure details already available for the existing variants of coronavirus and applies high-intensity energy (produced by the semiconductor generators) to destroy viruses in the target areas without impact on other surrounding objects.

Equipped with semiconductor generators (which may be powered by our smartphones), we can provide people around the world with the cheap and effective disinfectors to destroy covid viruses: e.g., to clean spaces on the public transport or in the offices.

Once the clinical studies are conducted with the biomaterials, such generators can be potentially used to destroy the colony of viruses inside the human body: in their lungs and kidneys. Signal range should be sufficient enough to penetrate the tissue, but without harmful ionisation that we get, say, with X-ray exposure.

Equipped with semiconductor generators (which may be powered by our smartphones), we can provide people around the world with the cheap and effective disinfectors to destroy covid viruses: e.g., to clean spaces on the public transport or in the offices.

Once the clinical studies are conducted with the biomaterials, such generators can be potentially used to destroy the colony of viruses inside the human body: in their lungs and kidneys. Signal range should be sufficient enough to penetrate the tissue, but without harmful ionisation that we get, say, with X-ray exposure.

We have conducted research in the historical uses of resonant frequencies to study their impact on microscopic objects, like viruses.

Then used data from Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) Protein Data Bank (PDB) to analyse protein structure of Covid virus' spikes.

And, finally, used API of the leading US university to calculate the chemical shift predictions of the target protein.

It puts us into the Proof of Concept (PoC) stage of development, with further work required with the partners / organisations who have access to both bio-medical labs and capabilities to test GaN / SiGe semiconductor-based THz generators.

We believe that our solution idea is unique in a way that there are no similar offerings on the markets.

Most of the efforts globally are concentrated on the proven way of developing and releasing vaccines. But at the same time it's a slow process, especially when you deal with a pandemic and the virus mutations.

Using high-tech alternative, we as a society can achieve faster response capabilities, deliver response and treatment solutions globally and be able to tweak the solutions to the genetic mutations of virus faster than we currently can with the vaccine development in the big pharma industry.

It's a conceptual idea at the moment. If successful, the technology and process can be open sourced to support billions of people around the world to avoid tragedies and minimise the death rate.

- Time to clean a public transport vehicle or a hospital ward with our solution vs. what is being currently used;

- Adoption of the tech by the number of vendors, partners and customers;

- Average recovery time for the covid-hospitalised patient vs. current average recovery time.

2 full-time staff members.

Laziz Turakulov has 25 years of IT industry experience as a developer, system administrator and a solution architect. He is also a co-author in 8 UK IPO patents. His first degree (Bachelor) is in Physics, and the second (master) in IT. As of April 2021, he is a member of Microsoft Azure Rapid Response team.

Kamola Shavkiyeva has her degree in Finance. She had an experience of working for in private and non-profit sectors.

Team organically represents 50/50 male and female gender representation, and provide combined experience from working in research, transnational, private and non-profit sectors.

To make alternative technological solution available to the global population, utilising existing expertise at MIT and the challenge sponsors.

Biomedical research and development require deep specialist knowledge and expertise in coordinating the work with the authorities and healthcare organisations. Really hoping to get an assistance with a jump start here.

MIT Biomedical Engineering, MIT Micro and Nanotechnology Lab at MechE, and any partners working in these areas.

This solution may benefit the US population in the first place by working with the US partners on the PoC and its practical testing. Once mature, technology can be released to the rest of the world to make it affordable and available to any healthcare organisation.

One of the co-founders, Kamola is a woman who believes that you join, contribute and be successful in any field irrespective of your gender. She also believes that there should be more examples shares on how women can lead and advance in the STEM areas, to popularise and attract more girl and women into the field. 

AI can be used for good and speed up humankind's research and development processes. This solution may become an example of how AI can help to analyse the structure of the new virus variants, compute its resonance frequencies and assist with the development of new healthcare solutions.