A researcher at University of Hyderabad (UoH) in India has designed potential Covid-19 vaccine candidates referred to as T-cell epitopes.
The vaccine candidates are small coronaviral peptides, molecules used by cells to induce an immune response against the virus.
Computational tools cut the vaccine discovery process from years to days. Dr Seema Mishra, a biochemistry department faculty member at the university’s School of Life Sciences, designed the candidates to act against all SARS-CoV-2 structural and non-structural proteins.
Furthermore, the candidates are capable of facilitating vaccination of the entire population. Depending on how the candidates will be used by human cells against the virus, a ranked list has been generated.