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Bioengineering technique that boosts protein production could lead to effective COVID-19 vaccine – News-Medical.Net
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.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 3 2020
A bioengineering technique to boost the 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 injected them into mice. Within a month, the mice had developed antibodie…
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