Pfizer, BioNTech report shows the immune response in animals to COVID-19
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech have five potential COVID-19 vaccines in clinical trials, each based on a different mRNA format. The companies are now exhibiting that the most advanced candidate, BNT162b2, performed well in trials in which mice and macaques were infected with the coronavirus after inoculation.
The companies informed that the vaccine candidate produced neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, macaques, and antigen-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in both the nonhuman primates and mice. Those T cell responses indicate an anti-viral immun...