With dangerous new variants of COVID-19 appearing worldwide including California, manufacturers are racing to keep their vaccines a step ahead of the virus. And the speed at which they’re able to tweak the formulas is breathtaking by historic standards.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — With dangerous new variants of COVID-19 appearing worldwide including California, manufacturers are racing to keep their vaccines a step ahead of the virus. And the speed at which they’re able to tweak the formulas is breathtaking by historic standards. »We’ve all heard how quick the messenger RNA vaccines can be made, » says Prof. Bali Pulendran, Ph.D., an infectious disease researcher at StanfordPulendran says the cutting-edge messenger-RNA technique used to produce the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines gives both companies a powerful advantage.
