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
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....
The truth of the matter is even if the vaccine is developed by a Chinese Scientist, no credit will be given to him, regardless of his contribution. This discovery was only disclosed by SCMP not any Western media. But Wang's work had been unnoticed, obscured, ignored until maybe a White Scientist discovered his work, claimed credit for it, like they discovered America. Eureka, they will shout!
ReplyDeleteThis is the biblical truth. How many Chinese scientist from China have even come close to smelling the Nobel Prize in any discipline? No way they are going to get credit so long as the Whites control all these bodies
China should initiate the setting up of world bodies to be neutral bodies to replace the one-sided pro-Caucasian world bodies such as the Nebel Prize Organiser, the World Health Organisation, the Human Rights Organisation, the World Trade Organisation, etc.
ReplyDeleteExactly, no western media would want to mention the name of this scientist to acknowledge his work. This work and the mapping of the Covid19 genome sequence are worthy of a Nobel Prize if a westerner were the scientists that did them.
ReplyDeleteMany of the hate Chinese whites would not take the vaccine if they know that it was created by a Chinese scientist just like they are casting all kinds of doubts about Chinese vaccines.
We must shout about this loudly to let them know that they are taking Chinese developed vaccines to strike fear and disbelief in them.
ReplyDeleteA reminder to the world and especially to the Chinese people of what Professor Joseph Needham of Cambridge University said about the capability of the intelligent Chinese people:
1. "Every modern science and technology has its basic foundation in China."
2' "Give China a hundred years piece and she will produce wonders in the world"
The point is that China and the Chinese people have contributed so much to the world in science and technology and thus help the people of the world to live a better life in which the white people were the main beneficiaries. But instead of being grateful to China and the Chinese people they pour scorn on the Chinese people out of hatred, jealousy and irrational fear of Chinese being too intelligent for them to accept.
The white people are generally by nature wild, savage and aggressive for aggression, killings and murders are in their DNA. In this manner how can the world expect to have peace unless God destroy them completely or change their DNA.
Southernglory1
mRNA will alter their DNA, hopefully for the better of mankind.
ReplyDeletemRNA will alter the DNA of white men and women into Apes and Chimpanzees.
ReplyDeleteAnd alter the brains of Professors into Dr Jackal and Mr Hyde, and alter Trump and his followers into Frankensteins.
Can be also?
Meddling with the DNA, anything is possible when the condition in the body is right.
ReplyDeleteEveryone is using Chinese vaccines, be it Moderna, Pfizer or Sinovac. All were created by Chinese scientists.
ReplyDeleteOnly half of Singapore's healthcare workers agreed to vaccination. The other half wants to wait and see.
ReplyDeleteThree House Democrats said they tested positive for Covid-19 after sheltering in place with other members of Congress who did not wear masks during the violent attack on the US Capitol last week.
ReplyDeleteRep. Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois announced their positive test results early this week.
"Following the events of Wednesday, including sheltering with several colleagues who refused to wear masks, I decided to take a Covid test. I have tested positive," Coleman tweeted Monday.
A statement from her office said that the congresswoman "believes she was exposed during protective isolation in the US Capitol building as a result of insurrectionist riots. As reported by multiple news outlets, a number of members within the space ignored instructions to wear masks."
Jayapal tweeted early Tuesday morning that she "received a positive COVID-19 test result after being locked down in a secured room at the Capitol where several Republicans not only cruelly refused to wear a mask but recklessly mocked colleagues and staff who offered them one." CNN