Bio-Engineered Plants Produce Covid RBD Antigen for Serology Tests, Vaccines

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277668

Article Title: Scalable agroinfiltration-based production of SARS-CoV-2 antigens for use in diagnostic assays and subunit vaccines

Author Countries: Canada

Funding: This study was funded in part by a COVID-19 Rapid Response grant by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR, #VR2 – 172722) and by a grant supplement by the Canadian Immunity Task Force (CITF) to MAL. MM holds a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST) and YG holds a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Frederick Banting and Charles Best graduate scholarship (CGS-M). Production of RBD was supported financially by the National Research Council Canada Pandemic Response Challenge program. Greenhouse management was supported by funding from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Science. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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