New COVID Vaccine for Clinical Trials Approved
by Colleen Fleiss on
April 12, 2021 at 10:16 PM
China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine has recently been approved for clinical trials.
The new recombinant Covid-19 vaccine, developed by the National Vaccine & Serum Institute, a R&D centre of Sinopharm's bioscience subsidiary the China National Biotec Group (CNBG), got approval from the National Medical Products Administration on Friday, the CNBG said on its official Weibo account on Saturday, Xinhua reported.
It uses genetic engineering to grow harmless copies of the virus S-protein to induce neutralising antibodies.
‘The COVID-19 vaccine is based on the structural features of the receptor binding domain (RBD) on the virus' spike protein (S-protein).’