Decipher and neutralize: how are vaccines created at the Vector Research Center?

Decipher and neutralize: how are vaccines created at the Vector Research Center?

In the mid-1970s, the best scientists of the USSR received a residence permit in the Novosibirsk region at a new research institute. Over time, a whole science city – Koltsovo – grew around the enterprise. Today “Vector” has dozens of sites, thousands of specialists and technologies that have no equal in the world. What strains of dangerous viruses are stored in the laboratories of the center and how do they work with them? What is reverse genetics technology and what does it have to do with brewing kvass? How was the smallpox genome decoded and when will the HIV vaccine appear?

Decipher and neutralize: how are vaccines created at the Vector Research Center?

WORLD 24 More videos SHARE Tweet SHARE SHARE MAIL What else to see

• 

  New airport to appear in Turkmenistan in three years

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  Vaccinations at work: 67% of Mir TV employees vaccinated against COVID-19

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  Due to the heat in St. Petersburg, the lawns have dried up

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  Vaccine for pregnant women: doctors advise expectant mothers to be vaccinated against COVID-19

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  Rebel and preacher: what was Peter Mamonov

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  The beds are canceled: what cannot be done in the heat in the garden?

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  New Restrictions: Antique Measures Tightened in Kazakhstan

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  FSB prevented terrorist attack in Moscow

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  Downpour, hail and “dusty devil”: bad weather hit Moscow and the Moscow region

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  Giant yurt: modern cultural center opened in Turkmenistan

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  Golovchenko visited a confectionery factory in the town of Ivenets

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  Ministry of Digits: More than 8 million parents applied for “school” payment

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  How are pandemic and preschool development related?

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  COVID-19 in the CIS: Kazakhstan tightens anti-corruption measures, Belarus began to accept foreigners for vaccination without a visa

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  Turchak suggested organizing recreation in camps for the children of doctors from the “red zones”

  

  WORLD 24

• 

  Compulsory COVID-19 vaccination in Moscow

  

  WORLD 24

Click to Expand Repeat Video

• 

  A new airport will appear in Turkmenistan in three years This will be another transport infrastructure facility that will connect Asia and Europe.

  

  Vaccination at work: 67% of the employees of the Mir TV company were vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees could get an injection on the job. The doctors brought the vaccine directly to the building of the TV company.

  

  Due to the heat in St. Petersburg, lawns have dried up. According to the regulations, watering of lawns in the city is not provided. Local residents with watering cans and buckets are trying to save green lawns in their yards on their own.

  

  

  FOLLOWING

  “The very first PCR tests in Russia were created in our research center, and a week after the publication of the coronavirus genome,” says Tatyana Nepomnyashchikh, Deputy Director General of the Vector State Research Center of Rospotrebnadzor.

  For how vaccines are made, see this issue of Special Report.