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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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The Burnaby, BC-based company developed the oral DNA-based vaccine using its proprietary bacTRL Gene Therapy Platform, which uses genetically modified bifidobacteria as carriers of genetic vaccine elements on a DNA plasmid. Related: Red Meat Allergy Test Gets FDA Clearance. “We

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2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences

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Omer maintains that the solution to this challenge is something that’s already in practice by developers of the mRNA vaccines. What you do is you insist that a proper clinical development program is followed and that has been followed with trial data of tens of thousands of people,” says Dr. Omer.