Although as soon as there's vaccine-induced evolutionary pressure for the spine helix target, it might mutate, but it sounds like it will be "harder" to do so and still "work", and this makes the vaccine much more effective longer term, and more broad spectrum.The great thing about the spine helix, from an immunological standpoint, is that it doesn’t mutate. At least, it hasn’t mutated yet, three years into the COVID pandemic.
So a vaccine that binds the spine helix in SARS-CoV-2 should hold up for a long time. And it should also work on all the other coronaviruses that also include the spine helix—and there are dozens of them, including several such as SARS-CoV-1 and MERS that have already made the leap from animal populations and caused outbreaks in people.
I just posted that in the Covid thread. I think it shows some real promise. We've had other "breakthroughs", but this one looks like it could be the real thing. That would be AWESOME.![]()
Vaccine Breakthrough Could Finally Bring COVID to Its Knees
Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/GettyWith new COVID variants and subvariants evolving faster and faster, each chipping away at the effectiveness of the leading vaccines, the hunt is on for a new kind of vaccine—one that works equally well on current and future forms of the...www.yahoo.com
This is good news, not only for SARS-CV-2 but for other coronaviri as well.
Although as soon as there's vaccine-induced evolutionary pressure for the spine helix target, it might mutate, but it sounds like it will be "harder" to do so and still "work", and this makes the vaccine much more effective longer term, and more broad spectrum.
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That's our plan of attack here tonight. Haven'tChinese takeout.