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Finding New Ways to Fight Coronavirus … From Studying Bats

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

He uses these fundamental insights to guide the design of vaccines and therapeutics, including promising monoclonal antibodies. These days, the Veesler lab has been hard at work to understand SARS-CoV-2 and the human immune response to the virus. Despite carrying all of these viruses, bats rarely show symptoms of being sick.

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Enlisting Monoclonal Antibodies in the Fight Against COVID-19

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

B38 blocks SARS-CoV-2 from binding to the ACE2 receptor (light pink) of a human cell, ACE2 is what the virus uses to infect cells. Structural illustration of B38 antibody (cyan, green) attached to receptor-binding domain of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (magenta). In the U.S.

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Nirsevimab demonstrated protection against respiratory syncytial virus disease in healthy infants in Phase 3 trial

The Pharma Data

Nirsevimab demonstrate d protect ion against respiratory syncytial virus disease in healthy infants in Phase 3 trial. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is the leading cause of hospitalization in all infants. 1 – 5. RSV is the most common cause of LRTI and the leading cause of hospitalizations in all infants.

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