Researchers Using New Approaches in Hopes of Developing Novel Coronavirus Vaccine By Fall
Researchers are working to meet their ambitious goal of creating a vaccine against the novel coronavirus before the end of this year. Developing a vaccine for a newly discovered virus over such a short timescale was not possible just a decade ago. Recent technological and strategic developments, however, given scientists the ability to potentially produce a vaccine by this fall. Scientists are now able to bypass the lengthy process of growing the virus in the lab, instead using the virus’s genetic sequence to make the vaccine.
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