Covid19 - Chinese scientists and vaccines save the world

Chinese scientist’s spike protein research paves way for Covid-19 vaccine 

Wang Nianshuang, who designed the synthetic spike protein used in many Covid-19 vaccines. Photo: Handout

• Wang Nianshuang’s work on spike proteins was largely unknown until the new coronavirus emerged
• Thanks to Wang’s years as a researcher in an obscure field, vaccines were available in record time

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing

5 Jan, 2021

The rapid development and delivery of a vaccine against the new coronavirus seems like a medical miracle, but not to the scientists who spent years pushing boundaries to solve the unsolvable. 

Among them is Wang Nianshuang, a former research associate with the University of Texas at Austin, who studied coronaviruses for eight years before his continuous hard work was rewarded with the pivotal design of a synthetic spike protein....

Wang’s design is at the heart of the mRNA vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, as well as two others under development by Johnson & Johnson and Novavax. It was available so quickly because of his previous research, which went largely unnoticed at the time....

After more than 100 painstaking attempts, Wang was finally able to engineer the Mers spike protein into a stabilised state by making small genetic mutations to its encoding gene sequence. “It is like putting a steel splint on the spike protein to stabilise it in the pre-fusion configuration,” he said.

Wang was also confident the technique could be applied to different coronaviruses – “including new coronaviruses” – which all have very similar spike proteins. But, after completing his work in 2016, Wang’s paper was rejected five times by major science journals.

It was finally published in 2017 by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and it would take a further three years – and the emergence of a new coronavirus – before the value of Wang’s work was fully appreciated by the vaccine industry....

 

Above article is from SCMP. 

 

China not only produced conventionally tested and proven vaccines for Covid19. The mRNA vaccine is also developed by a Chinese scientist, Wang Nanshuang in University of Austin. The success of his work did not come easy as his earlier papers were rejected several times and only surfaced again when Covid19 became a pandemic. His work became very important and finally recognised as a new method for developing vaccine that could be produced quickly to fight this pandemic. 

In other words, all the vaccines currently being used around the world, those in the USA, in UK and in China, were developed by Chinese scientists. Can't imagine this a few decades ago to think that the Chinese could produce the talents to solve this international health crisis, that the world would have to rely on Chinese scientists and Chinese technology in a major crisis like this pandemic.

Would the West want to acknowledge the contribution of the Chinese scientists or would clown Trump and liar Pompeo still insist that the Chinese scientists stole the formula from the West? By the way, did Trump or Pompeo know about this? Think they would not want to be injected with a vaccine invented by Chinese scientists. Maybe Trump already knew and thus refused to be vaccinated, refused to be saved be a Chinese developed vaccine.