● This ‘warm’ vaccine is being developed by Raghavan Varadarajan, Professor at the Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in association with Mynvax, a start-up that was incubated at IISc and was co-founded by him.
● It is a unique vaccine that can be stored at 37 degrees Celsius for a period of four weeks and for up to 90 minutes at 100 degrees Celsius.
● Vaccine contains a part of the coronavirus’s spike protein known as the receptor-binding domain (RBD) that helps the virus to stick to the host’s cell.
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