Italian Firm Takis Develops World’s First Virus Vaccine
May 6, 2020
12:19 pm
An Italian medical firm, Takis said it has developed the world’s first vaccine that neutralises the coronavirus in human cells.
According to tests carried out at Rome’s infectious-disease Spallanzani Hospital, a single shot of the vaccine generates antibodies in mice.
Italian news agency ANSA reported that the antibodies can block the virus from infecting human cells.
Luigi Aurisicchio, CEO of Takis, told ANSA that the Covid-19 candidate vaccine had neutralised the virus in human cells, for the first time.
Takis CEO Luigi Aurisicchio
“According to Spallanzani Hospital, we are the first …
