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University of Helsinki-led breast cancer research project receives US Department of Defense grant

University of Helsinki led research project that partners with the University of California, San Francisco, was awarded a Breast Cancer Research Program Breakthrough grant from the US Department of Defense.

24 Sep 2021

Weill Cornell Medicine launches ambitious community vaccination and education efforts

With vaccine availability growing in New York City and across the country, attention is increasingly turning to those who remain hesitant to receive it.

24 Sep 2021

Survey: Many Black parents express COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy for their children

Nearly half of Black parents (48 percent) were hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine for their child, compared to 33 percent of Latinx parents and 26 percent of white parents, according to survey results from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

24 Sep 2021

Presumed immunity in US remains below the threshold sufficient to disrupt SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Researchers have investigated publicly available data published to investigate the proportion of the US population that has become immune to SARS-CoV-2.

24 Sep 2021

No excess mortality during the Delta variant era in US state with high vaccination rates

Researchers have investigated the number of excess deaths during the initial spread of the Delta variant.

24 Sep 2021

Human milk antibodies elicited by vaccination show reduced activity against SARS-CoV-2 VoCs

In a study recently published on the medRxiv* preprint server, scientists from Singapore have assessed the levels of IgA-specific anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies in the breast milk of women recently immunized with the second dose of an mRNA-based coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine.

24 Sep 2021

Effect of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection on post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 spike IgG antibodies

Natural infection or vaccination against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) confer considerable protection against reinfection and reduce the risk of severe Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outcomes.

24 Sep 2021

COVID-19 vaccination and lactation

A new study evaluates the presence of antibodies in breastmilk and the immune responses of lactating women after vaccination of the COVID-19 vaccine.

23 Sep 2021

Design of mRNA vaccines to combat COVID-19

A recent review study discusses fundamental concepts in the successful delivery of nucleic acids in therapeutics.

23 Sep 2021

COVID-19 vaccination eases healthcare demand

A new study discusses a model that has been developed to predict the effects of relaxing restrictions on the number of new COVID-19 cases.

23 Sep 2021

COVID-19 transmission is higher with warm weather and increased visits to indoors public places, study finds

A new study finds that environmental factors and human mobility predict seasonal changes in COVID-19 rates, just as in influenza and similar diseases.

23 Sep 2021

People with natural immunity and subsequent mRNA vaccination can neutralize viral particles capable of resisting vaccine-induced antibodies

New research suggests SARS-CoV-2 spike protein substitution mutations can create a replication-defective viral particle that makes the virus resistant to vaccine-induced antibodies.

23 Sep 2021

Varying immune responses after single dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines

A new preprint describes the significant variation in the early immune response elicited by two of the earliest vaccines to gain emergency authorization against COVID-19.

23 Sep 2021

Differences in blood gene expression among patients with varying COVID-19 severity

A new study published on the medRxiv* pre-print server and currently undergoing peer-review aims to answer this question through whole blood transcriptomics of individuals with varying degrees of COVID-19 severity. Transcriptomics, done by RNA sequencing, gives insights into the genes expressed in a cell at a given time point. It gives an analysis of all RNA molecules within a cell, in this case, whole blood.

23 Sep 2021

The impact of multiple sclerosis therapy on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy

In a paper, the vaccine-induced cellular and immune response of MS patients receiving a range of therapies are assessed.

23 Sep 2021

Antibody kinetics in recovered COVID-19 patients

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have been examining the kinetics of antibodies in recovered COVID-19 patients.

23 Sep 2021

U.S. vaccination effort against COVID-19 needs intensifying, warn researchers

Researchers have warned that the United States has not yet reached the necessary thresholds for achieving population immunity against severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

22 Sep 2021

Researchers encourage longer dosing intervals for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine

Researchers in Canada, Italy, and the United States have encouraged extending the interval time between two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine among individuals who have not previously been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

22 Sep 2021

Bluetooth-based contact-tracing apps could enhance vaccine strategies

Mathematical modeling of disease spread suggests that herd immunity could be achieved with fewer vaccine doses by using Bluetooth-based contact-tracing apps to identify people who have more exposure to others - and targeting them for vaccination.

22 Sep 2021

Pregnant women who receive COVID-19 vaccine pass high levels of antibodies to their babies

Women who receive the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy pass high levels of antibodies to their babies, a new study finds.

22 Sep 2021

immunity News and Research

University of Helsinki-led breast cancer research project receives US Department of Defense grant

Weill Cornell Medicine launches ambitious community vaccination and education efforts

Survey: Many Black parents express COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy for their children

Presumed immunity in US remains below the threshold sufficient to disrupt SARS-CoV-2 transmission

No excess mortality during the Delta variant era in US state with high vaccination rates

Human milk antibodies elicited by vaccination show reduced activity against SARS-CoV-2 VoCs

Effect of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection on post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 spike IgG antibodies

COVID-19 vaccination and lactation

Design of mRNA vaccines to combat COVID-19

COVID-19 vaccination eases healthcare demand

COVID-19 transmission is higher with warm weather and increased visits to indoors public places, study finds

People with natural immunity and subsequent mRNA vaccination can neutralize viral particles capable of resisting vaccine-induced antibodies

Varying immune responses after single dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines

Differences in blood gene expression among patients with varying COVID-19 severity

The impact of multiple sclerosis therapy on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy

Antibody kinetics in recovered COVID-19 patients

U.S. vaccination effort against COVID-19 needs intensifying, warn researchers

Researchers encourage longer dosing intervals for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine

Bluetooth-based contact-tracing apps could enhance vaccine strategies

Pregnant women who receive COVID-19 vaccine pass high levels of antibodies to their babies

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