Italian Scientists Claim First Vaccine: Coronavirus Vaccine Update

A team of Italian scientists claim first vaccine that work on humans, they claimed to have developed a couple of vaccines that neutralises the novel coronavirus in human cells.

At Rome’s Spallanzani Hospital Italian scientists claimed that they are the first to neutralise the Coronavirus via a vaccine and that the initial results were “encouraging and beyond expectations“. Reports added that the coronavirus vaccine has antibodies generated in mice that work on human cells.

A report on Arab News, quoting Italian news agency ANSA, said a team of researchers from the company Takis was able to isolate antibodies in mice that blocked the virus from infecting human cells. the Arab News reported.

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CEO of Takis Luigi Aurisicchio, (the firm developing the medication) said that a coronavirus candidate vaccine has neutralised the virus in human cells for the first time,

“This is the most advanced stage of testing of a candidate vaccine created in Italy. Human tests are expected after this summer,” Aurisicchio was quoted as saying to Italian news agency ANSA.

“According to the Spallanzani Hospital, as far as we know we are the first in the world so far to have demonstrated neutralisation of the coronavirus by a vaccine. We expect this to happen in humans too,” he added.

The scientists tested with the vaccine on mice that had successfully developed antibodies that work on human cells. They further observed the five vaccine candidates generated a large number of antibodies, and the researchers selected two candidates with the best results. The vaccine has been tested in the Spallanzani Hospital in Rome.

It is said to be one of the most advanced stages of testing a potential vaccine in the country. All of the vaccine candidates currently being developed are based on the genetic material of DNA protein “spike”, the molecular tip used by the coronavirus to enter human cells.

Italian Scientists Claim First Vaccine neutralizes the SARS-CoV-2 in the human cells they are injected with the so-called “electroporation” technique, which consists of an intramuscular injection followed by a brief electrical impulse, helping the vaccine break into the cells and activating the immune system, the report said.