DARPA Selects Teams to Develop Vaccine Durability Prediction Model
Technologies that can change the way we measure and perceive vaccination-induced immune protection will eliminate the uncertainty and retrospective evaluation ...
Tag: Immune Response
Northwestern University Researchers Develop Nanoparticle Vaccine Platform
Nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine could target future infectious diseases Just one dose of a new nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine was enough to ...
Ongoing ‘Immune Injuries’ Might Cause Persistent Breathlessness After COVID-19
Long-lasting immune activity in the airways might be the cause of persistent breathlessness following COVID-19. A new study of 38 ...
How Do Respiratory Viruses Like RSV and SARS-COV-2 Persist in Cells?
Respiratory viruses that hijack immune mechanisms may have Achilles’ heel One viral protein could provide information to deter pneumonia causing ...
Does AstraZeneca’s COVID Vaccine Give Longer-Lasting Protection Than mRNA Shots?
Last week, AstraZeneca’s chief executive officer said the company’s COVID vaccine may provide longer-lasting protection than mRNA vaccines like Pfizer’s, ...
Will Omicron Be More Contagious Than Delta?
A virus evolution expert explains what researchers know and what they don’t about the new coronavirus variant of concern. A ...
Molecular and Genetic Characterization of Inborn Errors of Immunity
Understanding the genetic basis of primary immunodeficiency disorders is essential for their diagnosis, prognosis, and the development of precision therapeutics. ...
Unexpected Antibody Type Found in People with Malaria Infections
IgA antibodies in malaria infections may play a more important role than previously thought Malaria, a pathogen transmitted into blood ...
Developing a Long-Term Strategy for Low-Dose Radiation Research in the U.S.
This meeting hosted by the National Academies will focus on receiving information from the research community on low dose radiation ...
Vaccination Offers Higher Protection Than Previous COVID-19 Infection
In this multistate analysis of hospitalizations for COVID-19–like illness among adults aged 18 years or older during January–September 2021 whose ...
Data Shows Continued Vulnerability of Vaccinated Blood Cancer Patients to COVID-19
Vulnerable groups not mounting sufficient immune responses to vaccination (such as blood cancer patients) urgently require the public to continue ...
BARDA-NCATS Partner with Vunjak-Novakovic Laboratory at Columbia University on Tissue-Chip Technology
BARDA's Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes ...
T Cells Primed Up From mRNA Vaccines Able to Recognize SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern
Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have found that T cells from people who have recovered from COVID-19 ...
Novel Therapy for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) scientists are working as part of an international consortium have developed ...
The Long Lasting Effect of Bubonic Plague on Human Immunity Genes
Scientists examining the remains of 36 bubonic plague victims from a 16th century mass grave in Germany have found the ...
New Initiative to Support Studies of the Bat Immune System
Understanding the mechanisms of how bats regulate immune responses to clear infections and prevent excessive inflammation may lead to a ...
National Vaccine Trial Will Focus on Those with History of Severe Allergies or Mast Cell Disorder
In a carefully controlled clinical trial, Michigan Medicine researchers will examine whether participants who are highly allergic or have a ...
Images of Cells Exposed to COVID-19 Vaccine Reveal Native-Like Coronavirus Spikes
New research has for the first time compared images of the protein spikes that develop on the surface of cells ...
COVID-19: Men Create More Antibodies After Asymptomatic Infection, and Keep Them Longer
As COVID-19 has swept across the globe, it seems that high transmission rates have partly been driven by a large ...
Ebola Might Be a Chronic Infection – But Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Panic
Ebola is back in Guinea in West Africa, five years after the largest Ebola epidemic ever known ended – but ...
