Experimental vaccine that boosts antigen production shows promise against COVID-19

Thursday, September 3, 2020 - 11:00 in Health & Medicine

A bioengineering technique to boost production of specific proteins could be the basis of an effective vaccine against the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, new research suggests. Scientists manipulated a natural cellular process to ramp up levels of two proteins used by the virus to infect other cells, packaged the protein-boosting instructions in nanoparticles and […]

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