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Credit for Modernas COVID-19 vaccine belongs in part to discoveries dating back 15 years. The team behind it was inspired by two infant deaths.

COVID-19 researcher has ties to Geisel School of Medicine Jason S. McLellan, associate professor of molecular biosciences, left, and graduate student Daniel Wrapp, right, work in the McLellan Lab at The University of Texas at Austin on Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. While at the Geisel School of Medicines Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, McLellen was amongst those doing research that led to a COVID-19 vaccine. (The University of Texas at Austin - Vivian Abagiu) Jason McLellan, associate pro...

Research at Advanced Photon Source laid the groundwork for effective COVID-19 vaccines There is light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic tunnel. Several vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 are now in clinical trials, with one -- developed by Pfizer/BioNTech -- already having been approved for emergency use in the United States. This has been the fastest development and rollout of any vaccine in history, starting with the first gene sequence released in January. (The prev...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Data taken at the APS shows the neutralizing antibody D25 binding to the F protein of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). This binding stabilizes the protein in its prefusion form.... view more  Credit: Jason McLellan There is light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic tunnel. Several vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 are now in clinical trials, with one -- developed by Pfizer/BioNTech -- already having been approved for emergency use in the U...