{"id":107621,"date":"2020-05-25T10:24:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/first-human-trial-of-possible-covid-19-vaccine-triggers-rapid-immune-response-few-side-effects"},"modified":"2020-05-25T10:24:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:24:40","slug":"first-human-trial-of-possible-covid-19-vaccine-triggers-rapid-immune-response-few-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/first-human-trial-of-possible-covid-19-vaccine-triggers-rapid-immune-response-few-side-effects","title":{"rendered":"First Human Trial Of Possible COVID-19 Vaccine Triggers Rapid Immune Response, Few Side-Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-human-trial-of-possible-covid-19-vaccine-triggers-rapid-immune-response-few-side-effects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WUHAN, China \u2014<\/strong> As the worldwide number of <a href=\"https:\/\/studyfinds.org\/?s=coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19<\/a> cases reaches five million, the search for a vaccine has taken an important step forward. Researchers say the first human trial of a possible vaccine has been found to be safe and may effectively fight the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in China say 108 healthy adults were given a dose of adenovirus type 5 vectored COVID-19 (Ad5-nCoV) during the trial. The drug uses a weakened strain of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studyfinds.org\/zinc-lozenges-dont-shorten-the-common-cold-sniffly-study-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">common cold<\/a> (adenovirus) to deliver genetic material which codes itself to find the protein in SARS-CoV-2 \u2014 the virus that causes COVID-19. These coded cells then head to the lymph nodes where the immune system creates antibodies that can recognize the virus and attack it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese results represent an important milestone. The trial demonstrates that a single dose of the new adenovirus type 5 vectored COVID-19 (Ad5-nCoV) vaccine produces virus-specific antibodies and T cells in 14 days,\u201d Professor Wei Chen of the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2020-05\/tl-tlf052220.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUHAN, China \u2014 As the worldwide number of COVID-19 cases reaches five million, the search for a vaccine has taken an important step forward. Researchers say the first human trial of a possible vaccine has been found to be safe and may effectively fight the virus. Scientists in China say 108 healthy adults were given [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}