This new formula can help us vaccinate poorer countries

The Daily Beast reported on a breakthrough led by Jonathan Lovell who report that they have successfully freeze-dried a liposome-based liquid vaccine formula that could be developed for potential use in COVID-19 vaccines.

“During the initial rollout of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, there was a lot of attention given on the ultracold storage required for those vaccines,” Lovell, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and UB doctoral student Moustafa Mabrouk, told The Daily Beast. “We asked ourselves whether freeze-drying could be a way to eventually bypass some cold-storage limitations.”

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Yahoo News, Technology Networks and the Medical News also provided coverage.