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Mga Scientists mula sa Greffex sa Houston na isang Texas-based genetic engineering company nag-claim na sila ay nakagawa ng isang coronavirus vaccine.
Sinabi ng Kumpanya sa Houston Business Journal na na kumpleto nila ang nasabing vaccine at handang gamitin sa animal testing at review ng US regulators.
Ayon pa sa ulat ng Daily Mail:
It comes after UK scientists announced they'd begun testing their shot, and researchers at the University of Texas at Austin announced they'd made compound they believe can serve as a vaccine.
Countless scientists around the world are racing to the do the same, though they're taking many different approaches.
Developing a vaccine, however, is just the first step toward distributing one. Most estimates suggest that from, testing and production could take between 18 months and two years, though Greffex has not announced its timeline.
Greffex said that, for the sake of safety, its scientists did not use any form of the coronavirus itself - either live or inactivated - to make its vaccine.
Most vaccine contain either live attenuated virus or an inactive form of the pathogen.
However, the coronavirus is so poorly understood, has spread so quickly and has killed enough people that scientists at Greffex did not want to risk exposure that could trigger the life-threatening illness known as COVID-19.
Scientists at the genetic engineering company have instead built their vaccine on an adenovirus.
Adenoviruses are among the most common causes of viral respiratory infections, accounting for between two and five percent of colds.
They're also widely used in the making of vaccines.
Other companies are basing their candidate vaccines on ones previously developed during the SARS outbreak but abandoned once the virus subsided within six months.
More details at Daily Mail website.
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