Eating your veggies isn't only good for you — it may someday protect you against COVID-19. That's the hope of a plant biologist at the University of Ottawa who's working to create an edible vaccine for the novel coronavirus. In her current research to create an edible vaccine for COVID-19, MacLean is using "parts of the virus that other researchers believe will elicit a strong protective antibody response." "People are more willing to ingest a vaccine than they are to get a needle." (The Ottawa Hospital)MacLean's work will be tested on mice in collaboration with John Bell of the Ottawa Health Research Institute.

Source: CBC News June 26, 2020 07:52 UTC