Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020 03:27 PM MYT
The scientists, at the city-state's Duke-NUS Medical School, say their technique needs just days to evaluate potential vaccines provided by Arcturus Therapeutics, an American biotech firm the school has partnered with for the trials.“You can know from the way the genes change — what genes are turned on, what are turned off,” said Ooi Eng Eong, deputy director of the school's emerging infectious diseases programme.
Ooi said he planned to start testing vaccines in mice in about a week, with human trials expected in the second half of the year. In a key step towards developing diagnostic methods, the Duke-NUS scientists helped culture the virus in late January, days after Singapore confirmed its first infection. That made it the third country, outside China, to culture the virus.
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