Description: Behind the scenes from starter cells to a finished vaccine.
Comments How Pfizer Makes Its Covid-19 Vaccine Skip to Comments The comments section is closed. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to [email protected] . How Pfizer Makes Its Covid-19 Vaccine By Emma Cott , Elliot deBruyn and Jonathan Corum April 28, 2021
It’s the start of a complex manufacturing and testing process that takes 60 days and involves Pfizer facilities in three states. The result will be millions of doses of the vaccine, frozen and ready to ship.
A scientist removes vials of DNA from the master cell bank, the source of every batch of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. The vials are kept at –150°C (–238°F) or below, and contain small rings of DNA called plasmids.