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Intravacc gets NIAID contract for intranasal gonorrhoea vaccine development

Pharmaceutical Technology

from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a prophylactic intranasal vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). Therapyx will develop and manufacture the IL-12-containing microspheres in the vaccine called GneX12.

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Vitamin E from palm oil useful in boosting immune response based on studies on liver cells

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The article by Dr. Ahmed Atia and colleagues is published in Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, 2020 Palm oil contains abundant quantities of vitamin E compounds, which include tocopherols and tocotrienols. These compounds have anti-oxidant effects, which protect cells from damage from toxic chemical produced by metabolic processes.

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AZ expands phase 3 trials of COVID-19 vaccine frontrunner into US

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The UK pharma said that the trial will recruit up to 30,000 adults aged 18 years or over to assess the safety, efficacy and immune response. The trial is assessing efficacy and safety of the vaccine in all participants, and local and systemic reactions and immune responses will be assessed in 3,000 participants.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Related: Red Meat Allergy Test Gets FDA Clearance. “We Symvivo’s bacTRL Gene Therapy Platform is designed and optimized to address limitations associated with typical vaccines, including the inability to accommodate large or multiple genes, lack of specificity to targeted tissue and poor control over immune response, says the company.

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NIH begins clinical trial evaluating second COVID-19 booster shots in adults

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The trial aims to understand if different vaccine regimens – prototype and variant vaccines alone and in combinations – can broaden immune responses in adults who already have received a primary vaccination series and a first booster shot. Fauci, M.D. Investigators aim to have initial findings available by August 2022.

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New COVID Variants May Weaken Vaccines, But Shots Will Still Protect You: Experts

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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and is President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor. “It gives the virus a chance to adapt to the forces, in this case the immune response, that are trying to get rid of it, and that’s why you get mutations.” FRIDAY, Jan. health officials said Friday.

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Positive new data for Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine on activity against Delta variant and long-lasting durability of response

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In addition, the data showed that the durability of the immune response lasted through at least eight months, the length of time evaluated to date. In addition, we observe a persistent and particularly robust, durable cellular immune response,” said Mathai Mammen, M.D., variant. .