The science behind the search for a COVID-19 vaccine:
Pursuit:
The innate immune system is our first response to an infection, like a virus, and involves our defense cells – white blood cells – quickly going on the attack. But it’s a generalised response and sometimes this isn’t enough to kill an infection. That is when we need our adaptive immune system to kick in an exquisitely specific response that precisely targets a virus.
Dr Vanessa Bryant from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and University of Melbourne outlines how our new reality of COVID-19 vaccination could work.
Read the full story in Pursuit’s special report – The science behind the search for a COVID-19 vaccine.
