The scientists have identified regions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus for which a vaccine is to be discovered. The tools used to develop

The scientists have identified regions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus for which a vaccine is to be discovered. The tools used to develop anti-cancer therapies will be used for this purpose.

At the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in the United States, a method of enhancing the ability to fight cancer cells was used to increase the ability to fight the new corona virus.

CoronavirusResearchers believe that the vaccine developed using this strategy will provide protection to the human population and provide long-term viability.

"In many ways, cancer behaves like a virus," said John M. Maris, a pediatric oncologist at CHOP and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

So our team decided to use the methods we developed to identify specific forms of cancer in children. We decided to use those methods to identify the right protein sequence for targeting SARS-CoV-2.

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"We think our approach provides a roadmap for a vaccine that would be both safe and effective and could be produced at scale," said Maris, senior author of the research published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an urgent need for the development of a safe and effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease, the researchers said.