The race to get a COVID-19 vaccine continues, this item in Japanese media about a university partnering with a startup

  • has isolated a protein from silkworms
  • could be a potential vaccine
  • says its possible to create the protein artificially in the bodies of silkworms in large amounts
  • hopes to team with a pharmaceutical company to begin clinical trials next fiscal year after testing the vaccine on mice

Right. I wish them well, but this sounds very speculative at this stage.

  • 'Possible' to create the protein.
  • 'Hopes to' conduct trials.

I guess the only thing to do is buy the S&P with your ears pinned back?

Cute little critters! Not.

The race to get a COVID-19 vaccine continues, this item in Japanese media about a university partnering with a startup