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inovio is using DNA biotechnology cutting-edge science that has yet to produce a marketable vaccine how optimistic are you that this is the solution I feel very confident in the technology that we’ve developed here at an ovule and I feel very cautiously optimistic that our vaccine will be effective when we test it in the clinic inovio has already started testing its vaccine on animals and is expected to start human trials next month the companies raced to create a vaccine was triggered by this the genetic sequence of the new corona virus Chinese scientists posted it online just weeks after the outbreak was identified all we need is that genetic codes it’s just a series of a’s and t’s and c’s and g’s that make up their blueprint to the virus we use a computer algorithm to generate the design of the vaccine so we plugged in the viral sequence and after three hours we had a fully designed vaccine on paper and then after that the stages to manufacture it went straight into effect three hours yeah absolutely is that unusually fast certainly if you’re thinking of traditional vaccines they take months to years these little parts of the viruses using the genetic code inovio scientists are able to zero in on the part of the deadly virus these spikes that attach to human cells they then recreate that bit of coronavirus DNA in the lab the synthetic snippet of virus is grown inside bacteria after sloshing around all night there are thousands if not millions of copies of the synthetic DNA filtered and processed it looks like this the vaccine is made from this liquid then it’s injected into the subject or the patient and your own body is able to react and mount what we call an immune response against that part of the virus
