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Inside Pfizer’s labs, ‘variant hunters’ race to stay ahead of the pandemic’s next twist

UTMB’s Professor Pei-Yong Shi on Stat.com discusses Pfizer research process

Stat News, August 30, 2021

UTMB molecular biology Professor Pei-Yong Shi commented on his close work with Pfizer to study COVID variants. To create a new variant, a new spike protein is inserted into the old SARS-2 virus. “Our system is very different from a lot of other labs, and I think we’re the only one in the world doing it this way,” Pei-Yong Shi said.

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Inside Pfizer’s labs, ‘variant hunters’ race to stay ahead of the pandemic’s next twist

UTMB’s Professor Pei-Yong Shi on Stat.com discusses Pfizer research process

Stat News, August 30, 2021

UTMB molecular biology Professor Pei-Yong Shi commented on his close work with Pfizer to study COVID variants. To create a new variant, a new spike protein is inserted into the old SARS-2 virus. “Our system is very different from a lot of other labs, and I think we’re the only one in the world doing it this way,” Pei-Yong Shi said.

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