Israeli university says new findings may lead to deadly coronavirus vaccine

Jerusalem: Israeli researchers have identified coronavirus molecules that may lead to the development of a vaccine against the virus, Bar Ilan University (BIU) in central Israel said.

In a study published in the journal MDPI Vaccines, BIU researchers examined antigen molecules, that provoke an immune response of antibody production. The team identified a set of potential epitopes, protein parts of antigen molecules, in the protein set of the virus.

These epitopes can generate both antibody and cell-mediated immune responses.

The researchers have taken a bioinformatics-based computational approach to mine the protein content of the virus and subsequently identified the virus’s epitopes that provoke the most intense immune response. of all kinds,” the UN chief said at the Virtual High-level Meeting of Rapid Technological Change on the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

“Digital technology is central to almost every aspect of the response to the (COVID-19) pandemic, from vaccine research to online learning models, e-commerce and tools that are enabling hundreds of millions of people to work and study from home,” said the secretary-general.