A COVID-19 vaccine developed by researchers at the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at the Baylor College of Medicine has been...
The vaccine was engineered at the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.Hojun ChoiA COVID-19 vaccine developed by researchers at the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development at the Baylor College of Medicine has been authorized for use in India.
Unlike vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna that use newer mRNA technology, researchers at the center used traditional protein-based to develop this vaccine — meaning that it can be produced at a larger scale. “Our decade-long studies advancing coronavirus vaccine prototypes has led to the creation of this vaccine, which will fill the access gap created by the more expensive, newer vaccine technologies and that today are still not able to be quickly scaled for global production,” BottazziDr. Peter Hotez, also a co-director of the center, said the new vaccine is an “important first step in vaccinating the world.
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