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Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine

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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateOKAY ↓ More info and sources below ↓ We’re on PATREON! Join the community ►►   / itsokaytobesmart   SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Here we are, just a year after the first news of the coronavirus we now call SARS-CoV-2 and the global pandemic known as COVID-19… and scientists have already developed more than one safe & effective vaccine. How did they do that so quickly? I visited the lab whose work directly led to these first COVID vaccines, so you can learn how basic research connects to life-saving medicine. This is how to make a COVID-19 vaccine. Coronavirus animation courtesy of: Janet Iwasa, University of Utah, with funding from the NSF, the Coronavirus Structural Task Force and the German Federal Ministery of Research References: Wrapp, D. et al. Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the pr …...more
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Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine
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2020Dec 8
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateOKAY ↓ More info and sources below ↓ We’re on PATREON! Join the community ►►   / itsokaytobesmart   SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Here we are, just a year after the first news of the coronavirus we now call SARS-CoV-2 and the global pandemic known as COVID-19… and scientists have already developed more than one safe & effective vaccine. How did they do that so quickly? I visited the lab whose work directly led to these first COVID vaccines, so you can learn how basic research connects to life-saving medicine. This is how to make a COVID-19 vaccine. Coronavirus animation courtesy of: Janet Iwasa, University of Utah, with funding from the NSF, the Coronavirus Structural Task Force and the German Federal Ministery of Research References: Wrapp, D. et al. Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation. Science 367, 1260–1263 (2020) doi: 10.1126/science.abb2507 Watanabe, Y., Allen, J. D., Wrapp, D., McLellan, J. S. & Crispin, M. Site-specific glycan analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 spike. Science eabb9983 (2020) doi:10.1126/science.abb9983. ----------- Special thanks to our Brain Trust Patrons: AlecZero Amory Silva Amy Sowada Baerbel Winkler Benjamin Teinby Bob Rosset Brent M. Denzel Holmes Diego Lombeida Dustin Eric Meer George gladding Karen Haskell Marcus Tuepker Oliver and Arden Bradshaw Peter Ehrnstrom Robert Young Ron Kakar Salih Arslan Vincbis Zenimal Join us on Patreon!   / itsokaytobesmart   Twitter   / drjoehanson     / okaytobesmart   Instagram   / drjoehanson     / okaytobesmart   Merch https://store.dftba.com/collections/i... Facebook   / itsokaytobesmartpbs  

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