DNA may offer rapid road to Zika vaccine stat : Science News

Story continues after graphicImmune trigger For a DNA vaccine against Zika, scientists insert genes for Zika proteins into a circular piece of DNA called a plasmid. Barouch's team was the first to report a Zika DNA vaccine that offered protection in mice — in a study published last June in Nature. But the DNA vaccine has stepped up to the plate first, and the world will soon see if it can deliver. But the race to make a Zika vaccine probably won't come down to just one winner, he says. The biotech company Inovio Pharmaceuticals, for example, has begun human trials with yet another DNA vaccine for Zika.




Albopictus) carries the flavivirus and now 35 mosquito species have been identified by researchers including 26 that were previously unsuspected, that are responsible for transmitting Zika virus. The first step of pinpointing the Zika vectors could be streamlined by the new predictive model detailed in the journal eLife. An infected Aedes species mosquito (Ae. In November 2016, it was declared that Zika was no more a public health emercency, by the World Health Organisation. New Delhi :Zika, a disease caused because of mosquito, broke out as epidemic in Brazil in the year 2015.






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