Making a Recombinant Protein Vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus
In this simulation, the learner will design a sequence of experiments to generate a recombinant protein vaccine against a virus. The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 serves as an example.
Topics
- herd immunity
- vaccine
- coronavirus vaccine
- immune response
- clinical trial
- vaccination
- ELISA
- antibody
- antigen
- antibodies
- spike protein
- immunity
- prevent
- coronavirus
- sars-cov-2
- covid
- experimental design
- experiment
- design
- technique
- lab
- DNA sequence
- dna
- immune system
- immune
- memory cells
- viral protein
- covid-19
- covid 19
- covid19
- purified viral protein
- viral protease
- nucleocapsid
- viral genome
- expression vector
- expression plasmid
- plasmid
- restriction enzyme digest
- dna ligation
- transformation
- cell lysis
- protein purification
- SDS-PAGE
- gel electrophoresis
- SDS polyacrylamide
- Coomassie
- rna genome