By Staff Reuters
Posted August 22, 2020 9:50 am
China has approved human testing for a potential coronavirusvaccine cultivated within insect cells, local government in the southwestern city of Chengdu said on Saturday.
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.
Posted August 22, 2020 9:50 am
China has approved human testing for a potential coronavirusvaccine cultivated within insect cells, local government in the southwestern city of Chengdu said on Saturday.
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.