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Have you ever looked back at the COVID -19 lockdowns in 2020 and thought,
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man,
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man, that was a crazy year?
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Within just a few months,
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it felt like the whole world got flipped upside down because of COVID -19.
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Well,
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as crazy as it was for us at home,
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re -watching The Office and learning to bake sandwich dough,
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it was even more hectic vaccine labs all around the world as they
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raced to make a vaccine against the clock.
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Although vaccine development usually takes 10 to 15 years,
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we managed to get the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccine in less than a year.
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But why is that such an achievement?
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What actually goes into making a vaccine?
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And how can we be sure that if another pandemic threatens the world,
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that we'll be ready with an effective vaccine even faster?
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Hi, my name's Eva,
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and in Season 2 of Day Zero to Breakthrough,
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you'll come along with me as we take a look inside an Australian lab trying
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to prove that they can make a vaccine in less than 100 days.
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And don't worry,
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you don't have to have watched Season 1 to be able to follow this one.
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Right now,
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I'm standing in front of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology,
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where,
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in 2022,
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they developed a new kind of vaccine technology called CLAMP2.
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CLAMP2 is a versatile base that can be quickly adapted to accommodate
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all different kinds of viruses and generate a vaccine quickly.
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If you're interested in how it works,
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you can see more information about that here from last season.
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Over the next 100 days,
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the AIBN,
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in collaboration with the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations,
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will be holding a pressure test to prove that they can create a vaccine that's
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safe and effective in just 100 days.
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This time,
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they're trying to make a vaccine for canine coronavirus.
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Yes,
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so here in Keith's Chapel Group for the pressure
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test, we have this moonshot aim of
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developing a vaccine from sequence.
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to, in theory,
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emergency use in the shortest amount possible.
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We learn from our previous experience and we are trying to improve in multiple
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ways to be faster and better.
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Last season,
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they tried to make a vaccine for Chaparri Mamarino virus,
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but they didn't quite succeed.
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This time,
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they've learned from their mistakes and what went wrong and their confidence in their abilities.
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So from the first special test,
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we learned that instead of relying on only one supplier,
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raise different suppliers to see which ones can actually deliver
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fastest.
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And we are much more careful now about the timeline and
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we feel all much more prepared and we know what we have to deliver by which
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date. This particular protein,
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it's larger,
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so we'll have unique,
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not challenges,
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but differences when it comes to the length of processes like cloning
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and...
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In general,
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it's been more difficult to handle,
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but we are ready for it now.
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On day one,
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when I sat in on their first meeting,
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in just a few hours,
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the team had already figured out exactly what needed to be done.
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Even though the genes and even some receptors for canine coronavirus have already
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been described, that doesn't mean the team doesn't have any work cut out for them.
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They still have to decide which parts of which genes to target for the vaccine.
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That means analyzing the virus's genes and designing PCR primers.
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These are small chunks of DNA that are used to bracket either end
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of a target DNA sequence so that it can be copied or amplified into
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much larger quantities that can be used to make the vaccine.
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If you want to know more about this process,
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then catch us next week when we do an episode on PCR.
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Once these primers are designed,
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they'll order these exact DNA sequences.
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Once these arrive next week,
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the team will start cloning the DNA,
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and that's where we'll get to see the real science in action.
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If you want to see what happens next,
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subscribe to the channel and catch the rest of Season 2 on our journey to make a vaccine
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in less than 100 days.

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