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Scientists have created a jab to help protect against multiple coronaviruses, even the ones 'we don’t even know about yet', according to its creators.
Created by experts from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Caltech in California, the project aims to 'proactively' build a vaccine before the next potential pandemic causing pathogen even becomes threat.
The experimental shot, which has so far only been tested on mice, works by training the immune system to recognise parts of many different coronaviruses, a family of viruses that includes Covid, SARS and MERS.
Current vaccines work by training the immune system to target a single specific type of virus, such as the measles jab. But the new jab can target several.
Such a jab could allow people to be protected from multiple types of coronaviruses in a single dose, including, in theory, ones currently unknown to science.
Usually vaccines work by using a single antigen to train the immune system to target a specific virus. But this jab can target several
The jab works by using a tiny ball of proteins called a 'quartet nanocage'.
Scientists then used what they called a 'protein superglue' to attach antigens which are substances that trigger an immune response in the
