INDO ISRAEL VACCINE
- March 22, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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INDO ISRAEL VACCINE
Subject : Science & tech
Context : India’s Premas Biotech, Israel’s Oramed jointly develop oral vaccine for COVID-19.
Concept :
- An Indian-Israeli collaboration has reportedly developed an oral vaccine, one that can be swallowed like a pill instead of being injected as is the norm, for COVID-19.
- A preliminary test in animals showed that the vaccine produced the expected antibodies that confer protection.
- However the findings have not been reported in a scientific publication yet and can’t be independently verified.
- The nascent COVID-19 vaccine candidate is a “protein-based VLP (Virus Like Particle) vaccine candidate” that generates “triple protection” against the SARS CoV-2 virus, that is, it is able to target the spike, membrane, and envelope proteins of the coronavirus.
- These three proteins are critical to the structure of the coronavirus and give it form as well as the ability to replicate inside the body.