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Indian scientists claim to have developed vaccine against all coronavirus variants

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eMediNexus    07 February 2022

Scientists at the Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneshwar, claim to have developed a universal vaccine that can work against all variants of coronavirus.

The scientists have designed a peptide vaccine which they claim could provide protection against any future variants of the coronavirus. The researchers used immunoinformatic approaches to develop AbhiSCoVac, which is a multi-epitope multi-target chimeric peptide that can evoke protective immunity against all six virulent members of the family hCoV-229E, hCoV-HKU1, hCoV-OC43, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2.

The research has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Molecular Liquids. The vaccine has been developed using computational methods and the next step would be the production of the vaccine and testing… (ET Healthworld – PTI, February 6, 2022)

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