Medicago is the first Canadian company to administer doses of a potential vaccine to volunteers, 180 men and women aged 18 to 55 who will receive two doses 21 days apart. The company expects to have safety and efficacy results for the two doses in October.
Landry says its COVID-19 vaccine candidate stimulated a “very high neutralizing antibody response” in mice, along with activating the body’s T-cells, a major component of the immune system. Edmonton-based biotechnology firm Entos Pharmaceuticals is working on a relatively new kind of treatment known as a DNA vaccine. Unlike other vaccines, which prompt a body to develop an immunity to a disease, DNA vaccines inject pieces of DNA code into cells, directly instructing them to produce an antibody that stops the virus.
Medicago, named after the Latin word for alfalfa, has its origins in a partnership between Agriculture Canada and Laval University. It was incorporated in 1999, went public in 2006, and was acquired by majority shareholder Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharmaceutical Corp. in 2013. It employs 450 people in Canada and the United States.
“We need multiple solutions to make sure that we can protect the population in general, with the most effective vaccine,” she said.
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Way behind
For those wanting some more hope: watch the coming results for a medication called 'colchicine'. Up to now, success at all stages & we should know by the end of summer (if not any before). Dr.Tardif from 'Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal' has started the study & up to now...:)
Maybe, there's hope; a Doctor from Laval University is working with that team; in the past, he had participated in finding the vaccine against Ebola. We'll see.......
Is it not a big late to start now ...18 months target itself is late considering few already in stage 3 trials across the world.
Testing on 18 to 55 age gtoup makes no sense, if most cases present in people over age 65. Also, im supposed to give this to my kids, when no testing is being done on peope under 18
CTVToronto Zelenko protocol apparently works to save lives. Why has Fauci , WHO, Tam and Henry not publically endorsed? Treatment for Covid is available , why is it not being used in Canada or US routinely? Saves lives , reduces mortality, no need for vaccine or lockdown/social nonsense.
CTVAtlantic I thought they were testing long ago, keep reading articles like this, its like we are being lied to over and over again, I thought Dalhousie University were testing months ago
A vaccine for a virus with a 99.9637% survival rate. Think about that for a moment before continuing to promulgate big pharma hocus pocus for new rev streams
Il s'agit de Medicago de la Ville de Québec ; à suivre...
what are they testing ? china vaccine ?
'Unlike other vaccines, which prompt a body to develop an immunity to a disease, DNA vaccines inject pieces of DNA code into cells, directly instructing them to produce an antibody that stops the virus.' That doesn't sound healthy.
Go Canada, give the world a vaccine, much needed and waiting for!
Israel has a antidote in the making much better than a vaccine👍