The COVID-19 pandemic drove the rapid development of technologies, according to expert – Society and Culture

NEW YORK, December 31. /TASS/. The positive results of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic consist of the accelerated development of a number of scientific technologies and the increase in medical awareness of the population, the professor at the School of Systems Biology of George Mason University, Ancha Baranova.

“Everyone knows the adverse consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, but it has also had positive results. They consist of the launch of several technologies that have not been able to reach the market before. One of them is mRNA technology. The second is adenovirus vaccine. This technology has been tested for a long time and is now marketed together with the drugs from AstraZeneca and Sputnik V. The third is the technology that works with large amounts of proteins fused in insect cells, which was also used before, but not on such scales. how Novavax was launched,” he said.

“The medical awareness of the population has seriously increased” due to the pandemic, the professor added. “There has been a huge increase in people’s interest in scientific information,” said Baranova.