Team of scientists "working feverishly" to develop COVID-19 vaccine from genetically engineered cows

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Jun 23, 2020, 12:13:35 PM6/23/20

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From March 16.

For nearly 20 years, SAb has been developing and perfecting a unique method

of using genetically engineered cows as the source from which to harvest antibodies

that can fight human diseases such as influenza, diabetes and cancer.

"The process risks transmission of bovine viruses and prions responsible

for BSE (mad cow disease) to humans," notes Darwin K. Hoop.

(If they're "working feverishly" to rush out that new vaccine, shouldn't they

be quarantined?)

MCM

Cows play part in coronavirus vaccine development

By Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch
Mar 16, 2020

https://www.agupdate.com/tristateneighbor/news/state-and-regional/cows-play-part-in-coronavirus-vaccine-development/article_ece6ce6a-679a-11ea-b681-6f3f2dc32f68.html

Cows that SAB Biotherapeutics uses to produce antibodies were modified with a human gene and cloned.

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A Sioux Falls company — with its team of scientists and a herd of genetically engineered cows — is working feverishly to develop and produce an effective treatment for people infected with the coronavirus.

SAb Biotherapeutics has emerged as a major player in the effort to generate a viable antidote to the fast-moving virus that is sweeping across the world and the United States, so far sickening more than 140,000 and killing several thousand.

Eddie Sullivan, CEO of SAb, said the company is working on producing a polyclonal antibody therapeutic to coronavirus that it expects will be ready for the pre-clinical and clinical-trial evaluations by the end of the summer, paving the way for a potential treatment shortly thereafter, depending on the pace of regulatory approval.