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The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: Clinical trial finds inhaled immune response protein increases odds of recovery for hospitalised COVID-19 patients

Scienmag

Inhaled delivery of a formulation of a key protein involved in the immune response – interferon beta-1a – to hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the UK reduced the odds that they would develop severe disease or die from SARS CoV-2 infection.

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8 Of The Most Common Foods Allergies – Do You Have One?

Delveinsight

As per the Food Allergy Research & Education, in the US, each year, around 200,000 people require emergency medical care for allergic reactions to food. Food allergy is a specific immune response to certain food items that it considers harmful. What are the most common food allergies? Egg Allergy.

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HIV vaccines suffer setbacks but new approaches could turn the tide

Pharmaceutical Technology

The failure of several late-stage trials highlights the challenging nature of HIV vaccine development. Since HIV integrates with the DNA, eliminating the virus from the body is very difficult, explains David Montefiori, PhD, director of the Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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World AIDS Vaccine Day 2024: Prospects in HIV Vaccine Research

XTalks

Led by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), World AIDS Vaccine Day emphasizes the importance of awareness and education in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Identified in the early 1980s, HIV quickly escalated into a global pandemic, spurring an urgent international response.

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Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design

Pfizer

Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design. Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design. deliesschef. Tue, 07/26/2022 - 17:41.

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mRNA universal influenza vaccine enters clinical trials

Drug Discovery World

A clinical trial of an experimental universal influenza vaccine developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center (VRC) has begun enrolling volunteers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The trial will enrol up to 50 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 49.

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Covid-19 causes long-term damage to the immune system

Drug Discovery World

The study was co-funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and led by Mark M Davis, Director of the Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection and a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine in California.