Thursday, January 30, 2020 Daily Archives

VGXI to make DNA vaccine in global effort to stymie coronavirus

VGXI will make Inovio Pharmaceuticals’ investigational vaccine as part of a collaborative effort to halt the progress of the coronavirus that has recently emerged in Wuhan, China. At the time of publication, 170 people have died and almost 8,000 people infected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak began, is under lockdown but cases of infection have been reported across the globe, including in Australia, France, and the US. There is no specific treatment for…