How can Plants help Fight COVID-19

Sachi Sharma and Lynetta Binger
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Lynetta Binger: Phoenix Country Day School, Paradise Valley, USA

International Journal of Cell Science & Molecular Biology, 2020, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-3

Abstract: COVID-19 is a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. The virus is highly contagious and is passed by human contact, and in severe cases it was found that COVID-19 was causing pneumonia and ultimately lung or multisystem organ failure. Vaccine development is a high priority for COVID-19. The main goal of vaccine development is to achieve herd immunity throughout the world. Various approaches are being utilized to accelerate vaccine development. One approach is called molecular pharming, which refers to the recombinant expression of pharmaceutically useful proteins in plants. Several unique steps have been followed for molecular pharming for vaccines in plants. These steps include expression of antigens in plant based systems, the creation of Virus Like Particles (VLPs), a VLP based vaccine in influenza, a SARS-COV vaccine using molecular pharming, and finally the creation of a COVID-19 vaccine from plant sources. Molecular pharming is advantageous and has an unprecedented opportunity for vaccine development for pandemic diseases because of rapid and low-cost production and recombinant technology.

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Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.19080/IJCSMB.2020.07.555701

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