Posted on 02/12/2020 6:38:17 PM PST by TigerClaws
SAN DIEGO — In a race against the clock, a San Diego lab is scrambling to get a COVID-19 vaccine out and on the market. As the days go by, Inovio Pharmaceuticals is getting closer to releasing the desperately needed vaccine against the deadly virus.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, which is located in Sorrento Valley, has also created a vaccine for the Zika virus, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and the vaccine for Ebola.
Dr. Trevor Smith, who is the director of research and development at Inovio, said, "It's something we are trained to do, and the infrastructure is here and the expertise is in house."
When Chinese scientists released the genetic sequence on Jan. 9, Inovio researchers got to work immediately and within 3 hours they had a vaccine for coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it is now being referred to.
"We have an algorithm which we designed, and we put the DNA sequence into our algorithm and came up with the vaccine in that short amount of time," said Dr. Smith.
Tens of thousands in China have been quarantined and continue to suffer from the virus. That’s why scientists at Inovio Pharmaceuticals say they feel the sense of urgency to get the vaccine out.
The vaccine has been tested on mice and guinea pigs. It will next be tried on a group of human patients.
Scientists hope the vaccine will work like a piece of biological software. In other words, the vaccine will give the human body instructions to create the proper attack in the form of T-cells and antibodies against COVID-19.
If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be made available to the public by early this summer - which would be a record time frame for Inovio Pharmaceuticals.
Currently, an Inovio Pharmaceuticals lead researcher is in Sweden meeting with the World Health Organization to come up with the best plan of attack against COVID-19.
Somebody trying to pump the stock?
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Color me skeptical.
That suggests someone had a vaccine long before.
THREE HOURS?
Smells like BS.
I hope this is accurate and genuine. That said, Sorrento Valley is chock full of biotech start ups that are more hype than substance. Hope this one has successfully come up with a much needed vaccine.
A short time? It took three hours. That’s crazy long. A vacine should take ten minutes.
yup.
Vaccinate the women & children first!!!
Be real now, everyone knows the most productive workers go to the front of the line in China.
God bless private business!
And yes, I also think that this is a new and novel thing that has come out so the media is totally hyping it up.
Cioronoavirus is listed on Lysol cans now. It’s been around for some time but no one figured out a vac for it...just in case?
I have a feeling this is a get rich quick scheme.
Show me a reason and I’ll show you a virus.
Notice the protests in China has stopped!
Just 14 years of trials to go and we’re home free!
Connected to Aspen Institute.
No thanks.
Wouldn’t recommend anyone get near this “vaccine”, if that’s what it really is.
Just get in on the Pump. Trust me, you don’t want the Dump. Take quick profit and get out.
I’ll watch it tomorrow but I’m not a buyer.
No, but really. It has electrolytes.
They can keep it. I don’t want any.
Zombies in 3, 2, 1....
My son in law is a doctor. He chose to not practice medicine but instead went into statistics and math sciences based on medicine. I thought he was crazy. He is doing exactly this type of research to develop drugs based on genetic material and algorithms to come up with effective treatments and cures. Way over my head.
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