Recent Updates on Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine (mRNA-1273)
Sayan Roy, Pondicherry University mRNA-1273 is a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, designed to fight against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is developed by a US-based pharmaceutical company- Moderna, in association with NIAID Vaccine Research Center. The mRNA-1273 vaccine encodes for the SARS-CoV-2 full-length spike glycoprotein trimer ‘S-2P’, but modified to incorporate two proline substitutions […]