Impetus for a corona vaccine

 In order to immunize the world population both an effective vaccine and an efficient production process are necessary Even though there still isn’t a vaccine against the coronavirus, it is already being discussed which groups should be protected first. But one thing is clear: as soon as a vaccine is found, it must be produced quickly and in large quantities. Only then will it be possible to contain the Covid-19 pandemic without the current restrictions on social life. Biotechnical processes developed by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg to produce various viruses could help. The team from Magdeburg now wants to adapt these methods to the production of a corona vaccine. The researchers from Magdeburg are interested not only in the large-scale production of viruses and their efficient purification for use as a vaccine, but also in the search for suitable immunogens against Covid-19. The...