Coronavirus Immunotherapeutic Consortium Identifies Surfaces of Spike Most Resistant to Antibody Escape
Hundreds of antibodies contributed by over 50 different organizations around the world were classified and mapped. This study shows exactly ...
Tag: SARS-CoV-2
Tense Decision-Making Over COVID-19 Booster Shots
CDC joins FDA in recommending Pfizer booster shot for 65 & up, people at high risk and those with occupational ...
Military Issues COVID Vaccine Guidance to West Coast Marines
Active duty personnel must be fully vaccinated by Nov. 24, and reserve personnel by Dec. 17 Marine Corps Installations West, ...
New J&J Data Shows Second COVID Shot Boosts Antibodies and Protection – But Single Dose Still Strong Against Delta Variant
On Sept 22, 2021, Johnson & Johnson released data that answers two questions many people have likely been wondering about ...
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 ...
Massive Numbers of New COVID–19 Infections, Not Vaccines, Main Driver of New Coronavirus Variants
The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary biology has on daily life. But how mutations, random ...
HHS Taps Draper to Develop Lung-on-a-Chip Technology to Study SARS-CoV-2
Draper has received a $719,000 federal contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enhance the ...
Informing Pandemic Decision-Making with Targeted Disease Monitoring
Study led by the U.S. Geological Survey outlines a means to better estimate COVID-19 occurrence and trends in populations COVID-19 ...
Artificial Intelligence Triage Tool Screens for COVID 26% Faster Than Traditional Diagnostics
Bedside AI tool allows acute care centers to more quickly identify and isolate infected patients A new University of Oxford-led ...
After India’s Brutal Pandemic Wave, Two-Thirds of Population Has Been Exposed to SARS-CoV-2
India emerged in June and July of 2021 from a particularly savage second wave of COVID-19, with total confirmed cases ...
What Does Full Approval of a Vaccine Do If It’s Already Authorized for Emergency Use?
Thirty percent of unvaccinated American adults say they’re waiting for the COVID-19 vaccines currently authorized for emergency use to be ...
US Announces Plans for Public Health Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is forecasting plans to fund in 2022 the establishment of multiple Public Health ...
COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters: Is a Third Dose Really Needed?
Around 85% of adults (44.8 million people) in the UK have received one vaccine dose and 63% (33 million people) ...
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 ...
Patients with Alpha and Beta COVID-19 Variants Less Likely to Be Asymptomatic, Despite No Increase in Viral Load
Although two SARS-CoV-2 variants are associated with higher transmission, patients with these variants show no evidence of higher viral loads ...
Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccinations Resume: Understanding Risks and Benefits
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration lifted the pause on the Johnson & ...
UC Davis and SpectraPass Partner on Rapid Mass Spec COVID-19 Test
The novel COVID-19 test uses a mass spectrometer paired with a powerful machine-learning platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 in nasal swabs. ...
A Virologist Explains Their Concerns About Coronavirus Variants
Spring has sprung, and there is a sense of relief in the air. After one year of lockdowns and social ...
What is Thrombocytopenia, the Rare Condition Possibly Linked to the AstraZeneca Vaccine?
The federal government has asked Australia’s medical and vaccine regulators to urgently consider the European Medicines Agency’s finding of a ...
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 ...
