RE: Need for 2nd generation vaccines30 May 2021 22:54
Direct quote from CEPI
https://cepi.net/news_cepi/going-universal-the-search-for-an-all-in-one-coronavirus-vaccine/
“Instead of using the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, which is prone to mutations, as the key target for coronavirus vaccines, researchers are assessing other parts of the virus that are known to be more stable.
For example, scientists at the University of Nottingham in the UK are working alongside pharmaceutical company Scancell and Nottingham Trent University to test its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, SN14, which targets both the spike protein as well as the nucleocapsid, or N-protein. By targeting this additional viral structure, which is far less likely to mutate, the vaccine if found safe and effective could work to protect people against COVID-19 irrespective of any mutations to the spike protein and, in theory, could work across other coronaviruses.”