Scientists are experimenting with three kinds of COVID-19 vaccines
Injected vaccines can work in many different ways. Some might edit your DNA; some might use a harmless vaccine as cover. (Igor Vetushko/Deposit Photos/)Jean Peccoud is a professor and Abell Chair in synthetic biology at Colorado State University. This story originally featured on The Conversation.The coronavirus has ground social, economic and educational exchanges to a halt around the world. For now, public health officials are relying on tools like social distancing to minimize the harm of the virus, but in the long term, a COVID-19 vaccine is the best hope of a return to normalcy.It normally takes a few years to development a vaccine, but in the face of the coronavirus, biotechnology companies and regulatory agencies are taking aggressive steps to make a COVID-19 vaccine widely available sooner than that.I study biomanufacturing and synthetic biology, and it is fascinating to watch this unprecedented effort push at the limits of vaccine...