Home-grown vaccines
In a darkened office at Victoria University of Wellington, Davide Comoletti is craft ing designer molecules from the most dangerous parts of Sars-CoV-2. He’s nowhere near the virus itself – instead using a digital 3D model of its spike protein.
Comoletti’s aim is to replicate the binding parts of the viral spikes and to bundle them together “like a bunch of flowers” to create a vaccine New Zealanders can eventually use to protect themselves against Covid-19. The idea is
