A team of Israeli researchers at Bar-Ilan University have identified short amino acid sequences - often referred to as the "building blocks of life" - that could help develop a vaccine against the novel coronavirus and which they believe could stop the next outbreak.
“Our study has identified a set of potential immunodominant epitopes from the SARS-CoV-2 proteome, such that these epitopes are capable of generating both antibody and cell-mediated immune responses,” Dr. Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, head of the Cancer Genomics and BioComputing of Complex Diseases Lab at Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, explained.
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