Artificial intelligence created a universal vaccine against all coronaviruses
Artificial intelligence created a universal vaccine against all coronaviruses
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Publish Date: 2026-06-14 09:22:00
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Researchers from the University of Cambridge have successfully completed the first phase of clinical trials for a universal coronavirus vaccine, developed with the help of artificial intelligence.
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COVID vaccination. Illustrative photo. Photo: Sb.by
Scientists not only created a synthetic “superantigen” but also solved two major logistical problems of the pandemic: the new drug does not require storage at ultra-low temperatures and is administered into the human body without the aid of a needle.
As the Belarusian popular science Telegram channel cybulinka noted, the results of the British scientists’ work on the pEVAC-PS drug were recently published in the authoritative medical journal Journal of Infection. The developers propose a fundamentally new approach in the fight against deadly viruses.
Why do we need a new vaccine?
Over the past twenty years, the world has faced three major coronavirus outbreaks: SARS in 2002, MERS in 2012, and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), which changed life on the planet in 2020.
The problem with modern vaccines is that they are created for specific strains. The virus quickly mutates, new variants appear, and pharmaceutical companies are constantly forced to “catch up” with the disease, updating their drugs.
In addition, a huge number of other sarbecoviruses circulate in bat populations, which can at any moment jump to humans and cause a new pandemic.
To break this cycle, researchers decided to create a pansarbecovirus vaccine — a drug capable of fighting a whole large group of viruses at once, including those that have not yet spread to humans.
The “Achilles’ heel” of the virus and DNA technologies
The pEVAC-PS drug is based on DIOSynVax technology. Instead of basing it on one specific…
