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Hong Kong reports 'first case' of virus reinfection

The Pharma Data

Those infected develop an immune response as their bodies fight off the virus which helps to protect them against it returning. The strongest immune response has been found in the most seriously ill patients. But it is still not clear how strong this protection or immunity is – or how long it lasts. .

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Predictive diagnostics: closing the precision medicine gap

Drug Discovery World

TMB is a proxy or predictor for immune activity since, the more foreign a cell becomes, the more likely there is to be an immune response to foreign cells. He is the founder and CEO of Cofactor Genomics, a diagnostic company leveraging the power of RNA and machine learning to build disease models.