A new study published by scientists at MIT reports successful experiments to inoculate mice with a new vaccine designed to protect against all COVID variants—even ones that have not emerged yet.
Several institutions are already racing to develop a universal COVID jab, and now researchers at MIT think they may have found one that could get us across the finish line. If itFrontiers in Immunology
“This study offers proof in a living system, an actual mouse, that the vaccines we devised using machine learning can afford protection from the COVID virus,” Brandon Carter, a PhD student at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a lead author of the new paper, said in a statement. The team characterizes its work as the first experimental evidence that a vaccine made through this AI approach is effective in preventing disease.
So the researchers instead want to make a vaccine that works differently. Rather than enable a vaccine to detect the COVID virus early and fire off antibodies to prevent a full-blown infection, the team wants to activate the part of the immune system that produces and fires off “killer” T cells that attack infected cells. This won’t prevent infection, but it could be a very easy solution to stopping severe illness or even death.
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