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Antibody response may drive COVID-19 outcomes

Scienmag

Researchers at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital show that levels of specific antibodies developed in the immune response may influence COVID-19 outcomes in both children and adults.

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Pregnant women show robust immune response to COVID vaccines, pass antibodies to newborns

Scienmag

The largest study of its kind to date also found benefit for lactating women BOSTON – In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have found the new mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be highly effective in […].

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HIV vaccines suffer setbacks but new approaches could turn the tide

Pharmaceutical Technology

Additionally, advances in the study of broadly neutralising antibodies (bNAbs) have led to new candidates being studied in early trials. This response was also seen in the RV 144 trial, she notes. Steven Deeks, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Neutralizing antibodies protect against severe COVID-19

Scienmag

Scientists at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard find that neutralizing antibody potency predicts severe or fatal COVID-19. BOSTON — Understanding the body’s immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is key to developing effective treatments and long-lasting vaccines.

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Children produce different antibodies in response to SARS-CoV-2

Scienmag

5, 2020)–Children and adults produce different types and amounts of antibodies in response to infection with the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, a new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found. NEW YORK, NY (Nov.

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Mutations leading to omicron variant did not enable virus to fully escape immune system

The Pharma Data

That’s because the mutations that led to the variant’s emergence aren’t found in the regions of the virus that stimulates one type of cellular immune response, says an international research team from Johns Hopkins Medicine, in collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and ImmunoScape, a U.S.-Singapore

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Immunocompromised pediatric patients showed T-cell activity and humoral immunity against SARS-CoV-2

Scienmag

New study suggests COVID vaccines may still be helpful for patients with antibody deficiency disorders According to data from a cohort of adult and pediatric patients with antibody deficiencies, patients that often fail to make protective immune responses to infections and vaccinations showed robust T-cell activity and humoral immunity against SARS-CoV-2 (..)