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SARS-CoV-2 variants: the role of sequencing and vaccine development
Professor Martin Michaelis and Dr Mark Wass explain why new SARS-CoV-2 variants are emerging around the world and how vaccines will have to adapt in response.
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Spike protein analysis explains faster spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants
Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers have imaged how the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein changes with the D614G mutation to enable faster spread of infection.
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Antibodies from COVID-19 vaccines less effective against SARS-CoV-2 variants
Researchers have shown antibodies induced by the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are less effective at neutralising certain SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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Researchers use viruses as vectors to deliver cancer vaccines
A team has used two viruses to administer specific tumour components in mice with cancer to stimulate their immune system.
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Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine shows promise in pre-clinical trials
A new nanoparticle-based vaccine has demonstrated success in ferret models of COVID-19, inducing strong neutralising antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.
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Vaccine strategy developed to fight urinary tract infections
Researchers have shown that administering a urinary tract infection vaccine directly to the bladders of mice helped them to effectively fight bacteria.
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SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: an interview with Payton Weidenbacher
DTR's Victoria Rees interviews Payton Weidenbacher from Stanford University, who discusses a new potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine that the team he works on developed using nanotechnology.
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Experimental vaccine against synthetic opioids shows success in mice
A new vaccine is effective at preventing opioid overdose from fentanyl and carfentanil in rodents, according to a new study.
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SARS-CoV-2 and immunology: antibody developments
Discover the latest in SARS-CoV-2 antibody research as we cover three of the most recent developments in this article.
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Novel DNA-based COVID-19 vaccines induce immune responses in mice
The DREP-S vaccine candidate was found to be the most potent of the two investigational vaccine prototypes, eliciting high titers of SARS-CoV-2 neutralising antibodies after a single dose.
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New COVID-19 vaccine elicits strong protective immunity in mice and monkeys
A new MVA-based vaccine has shown success at inducing COVID-19 antibody and T-cell responses in pre-clinical studies.
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COVID-19 vaccine candidate stimulates neutralising antibody production in vivo
The novel haptenised SARS-CoV-2 s-Spike vaccine, BVX-0320, stimulated mice to create neutralising antibodies that were able to reduce SARS-CoV-2 plaques in a neutralisation test.
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Attenuated vaccine could combat fatal Leptospira bacteria
A single vaccination with a mutated Leptospira bacteria prevented rodent models from developing leptospirosis, the most fatal type of zoonotic disease worldwide.
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New method for rapid development of vaccines for pre-clinical tests
Using synthetic chemistry, researchers have fused hydrophobic adjuvants with water-soluble proteins to create a new type of vaccine.
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Artificial intelligence analyses how viruses evade the immune system
The natural language processing model trained using viral protein sequence data was able to predict promising targets for vaccines against HIV, influenza and coronaviruses.
