Coronavirus Vaccine Gene Therapy

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Coronavirus vaccine gene therapy. A covid 19 vaccine unlike any other in development is gaining attention. Two harvard affiliated hospitals are spearheading the research and the vaccine is expected to be tested. A coronavirus vaccine project takes a page from gene therapy the technique aims to make a person s cells churn out proteins that will stimulate the body to fight the coronavirus. Oxford biomedica and rehab needs of covid 19 survivors.

A n early stage vaccine against covid 19 based on the same basic technology used in gene therapy is gaining some support from some of that field s biggest names. Novartis joins vaccine efforts with gene therapy approach plus. The experimental vaccine called aavcovid could end the coronavirus pandemic in record time experts say. The study titled the current and future state of vaccines antivirals and gene therapies against emerging coronaviruses and published by frontiers in biology suggests selected antivirals and gene therapy for treatments to the virus that will potentially present faster results than any vaccine which could take months to over a year to fully develop and make available.

That s because it relies on a gene therapy technology that s already in use to cure a form of blindness.