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First plant-based Zika vaccine developed
August 25 , 2017
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- In a first, US scientists from Arizona State University (ASU) have developed a plant-based Zika vaccine that could be more potent, safer and cheaper to produce than other medicines being developed for the disease.
- The vaccine, developed using tobacco plant, targets a key protein -- called DIII -- which envelopes the outside of the Zika virus and plays a key role for the virus to infect people.By developing this protein without the dangerous virus within it, it could be used to immunise people to the real strain of Zika.
- Immunisation experiments on mice showed a 100 per cent success in inducing antibody and cellular immune response to protect against multiple Zika virus strains.
- The worldwide Zika threat first emerged in 2015, infecting millions as it swept across the countries and led to the birth of babies with severe brain birth defects.
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