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.
https://investorplace.com/2020/02/pandemic-fears-enough-ino-stock/
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Good recent article about the company.
This development looks like a nothingburger.
Ya.
I’d be leery of a vaccine for that family of viruses. Definitely don’t want to be in the first 6m of people who get it. You could get into a situation where the ‘common cold’ coronavirus puts you in the ICU or kills you.
Or there was a cure the whole time, being a bio weapon. And this firm was tapped to synthesise the vaccine...
Love your tagline.
Thanks! It’s subject to change without notice!
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Anyone can scan for potentially immunogenic peptides in an amino acid sequence.
I assume that’s what they did.
This is amazing to me!
“SAN DIEGO LAB DISCOVERS CORONAVIRUS VACCINE IN 3 HOURS”
yeah, but they didn’t claim that it actually works, right? because that would, you know, take lots of testing on people and stuff ...
Oh it works, but may cause;
Uncontollable bleeding of the ass
Nuclear bowel explosions
Lung bursting
Terminal AIDS
Pecker dropping off while urinating
Uncontrollable urges to kill Bette Midler
Distence projectile vomiting
Urges to listen to Taylor Swift...and like it!
Chewing on yourself
Voting Democrap!
Humping public mailboxes
Ask you doctor if Coronavirus cure is right for you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
$3.96 now.
Always have in the back of your mind; TODAY'S SOLUTION can be TOMORROW'S PROBLEM. - Tom
VRP-N vaccines not only failed to protect from homologous or heterologous challenge, but resulted in enhanced immunopathology with eosinophilic infiltrates within the lungs of SARS-CoV-challenged mice.
For some reason I woke up during the night and was wondering just that. Did the SARS vaccine lead to worse outcomes when challenged with n-CoV?
YES! Which the SARS vaccine was administered in China not anyplace else. Though this is still a type A flu which is very dangerous.
No. Not an influenza virus. The Coronavirus is a virus but not an influenza virus.
Maybe it self-identifies as an influenza virus. Nothing wrong with that. Who am I to judge?
Yes, but the virus itself is not influenza-like. The early symptoms are.
Don’t sweat it (pun)
Good link.
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