coronavirus vaccine cultivated within insect cells, local government in the southwestern city of Chengdu said on Saturday.China is in a global race to develop cost-effective vaccines to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scientists may have found first human link between antibodies, coronavirus protection Using insect cells to grow proteins for the coronavirus vaccine – a first in China – could speed up large-scale production, the city government of Chengdu said in a notice on social media WeChat.The vaccine, developed by West China Hospital of Sichuan University in Chengdu, has received approval from the National Medical Products Administration to enter a clinical trial, the notice said.When tested on monkeys, the vaccine was shown to prevent.