Scientists are busy working on a vaccine that might fight strains of the COVID virus SARS-CoV-2 that haven't even emerged yet.
The effort from a British team at the University of Cambridge is already showing promise in mouse studies. Of course, mouse studies don't always pan out in humans, but study first author Rory Hills is optimistic.that will protect us against the next coronavirus pandemic, and have it ready before the pandemic has even started,” Hills, a graduate pharmacology researcher at Cambridge, said in a university news release.
against unknown coronaviruses now,” explained study senior author and Cambridge professor of pharmacology Mark Howarth.work by sensitizing the human immune system to spot and attack one key "antigen" on a particular germ's surface. Reliance on a single antigen can become a weakeness, however, if new viral strains emerge.
They then engineered a variety of different viral antigens that lodged themselves within this nanocage.
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