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标题: [新闻] 英国科学家疫苗研发有显著突破
时间: Wed Feb 5 19:02:16 2020
1.媒体来源: Sky News
2.记者署名: Ashish Joshi
3.完整新闻标题:
Coronavirus: 'Significant breakthrough' in race for vaccine made by UK scientists
4.完整新闻内文:
A vaccine may be close to being tested on animals and then humans, depending on the level of funding researchers get.
The scientist leading the UK's research into a coronavirus vaccine says his team have made a significant breakthrough by reducing a part of the normal development time from "two to three years to just 14 days".
Professor Robin Shattock, head of mucosal infection and immunity at Imperial College London, said he is now at the stage to start testing theaccinen animals as early as next week with human studies in the summer if enough funding is secured.
He told Sky News: "Conventional approaches usually take at least two to three years before you even get to the clinic. And we've gone from that sequence to generating a candidate in the laboratory in 14 days.
"And we will have it in animal models by the beginning of next week. We've short-tracked that part. The next phase will be to move that from early animal testing into the first human studies.
"And we think with adequate funding we could do that in a period of a few months."
Professor Shattock is part of a global effort to develop a vaccine that could potentially save hundreds or thousands of lives if this coronavirus outbreak develops into a full blown pandemic.
The vaccine will be too late for this current outbreak but it will be crucial if there is another one.
5.完整新闻连结 (或短网址):
https://bit.ly/2UtpGsW
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简单版:
伦敦帝国学院科学家声称把疫苗研发期间从两到三年缩短到14天，目前在动物试验的初始阶段。如果资金充足的话，可望在夏季进行人体试验。