By: P.T. , STA
After developing a vaccine against Covid-19 last year, Slovenian researchers will focus on developing a technology to spray the vaccine into the nose or mouth, the head of the team, Roman Jerala, told the STA.
Jerala’s team developed the vaccine based on plasmid DNA, which contains the code for the virus proteins and triggers the production of virus proteins in human cells. These respond by creating anti-bodies and the protective T-cells. It has developed a technology to apply the vaccine as a spray, also because Covid-19 is primarily a respiratory infection and in this way organ tissues would be better protected, said the synthetic biology expert at the National Institute of Chemistry.