Hyderabad’s Biological E to get mRNA technology from WHO to produce Covid vaccines
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5th Apr, 2022
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Hyderabad-based vaccine manufacturer Biological E. Limited (BE) recently announced that it had been selected as a recipient of mRNA technology from the World Health Organisation (WHO) technology transfer hub.
About mRNA vaccines
- mRNA vaccines trick the body into producing some of the viral proteins itself.
- They work by using mRNA, or messenger RNA, which is the molecule that essentially puts DNA instructions into action.
- Inside a cell, mRNA is used as a template to build a protein.
- mRNA vaccines use a messenger RNA created in a laboratory to teach the human cells how to produce a protein that in turn initiates an immune response inside the body against a particular disease.
- The immune response will fight the actual virus as it gets into the body.
- At present, India has no Covid-19 vaccine made on mRNA platform.
- This mRNA is delivered into the human body, whose cells read it as instructions to build that viral protein, and therefore create some of the virus’s molecules themselves.
- These proteins are solitary, so they do not assemble to form a virus.
- The immune system then detects these viral proteins and starts to produce a defensive response to them.
About World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations’ specialized agency for Health was founded in 1948.
- Its headquarters are situated in Geneva, Switzerland.
- There are 194 Member States, 150 country offices, six regional offices.
- It is an intergovernmental organization and works in collaboration with its member states usually through the Ministries of Health.
- The WHO provides leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
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