Kizzmekia Corbett is developing nanoparticle-based vaccines that could hypothetically protect against multiple viruses simultaneously.
“I am making vaccines in the form of nanoparticles. One of the things that we do that's really cool is we create very small linkers, so just protein sequences that can link different viral proteins to those nanoparticles. And so we can put many different viral proteins on the surface of nanoparticles, give them as a vaccine, and then hypothetically protect against many viruses at the same time.”
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