Soft nanomaterials like peptides in mimicking the growth of the most powerful virus on earth so far (SARS-CoV-2)

Since COVID-19 appeared in late 2019 and researchers have designing molecules that target the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2. However, their targeting is not affected when the Spike proteins got mutated as that happened with the series of waves that appeared due to the mutation on the Spike protein. Recently there was a study showing the current vaccines would not affect the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5.
Nanomaterials are the first thing coming to our mind to be used as vaccines. Their physical and chemical properties, make them an attractive tool in the nanomedicine field. One of these properties is their ability to self-assemble into a well-ordered structure on a nanoscale. We used those properties and designed a peptide that targeted the SARS-CoV-2 envelope protein so that we can escape from the most mutated region of the virus which is the Spike protein. That strategy will open a new avenue in the vaccine world with other viruses or bacteria.