Remove 2003 Remove Immune Response Remove Research Remove Vaccine
article thumbnail

‘Proactive’ vaccine can protect against unknown future coronaviruses

Drug Discovery World

Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that can provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for future disease outbreaks – including ones we don’t know about yet. Building protective vaccines before a pandemic emerges “We don’t have to wait for new coronaviruses to emerge.

Vaccine 130
article thumbnail

One coronavirus vaccine may protect against other coronaviruse

The Pharma Data

Northwestern Medicine scientists have shown for the first time that coronavirus vaccines and prior coronavirus infections can provide broad immunity against other, similar coronaviruses. The findings build a rationale for universal coronavirus vaccines that could prove useful in the face of future epidemics.

Vaccine 40
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Enlisting Monoclonal Antibodies in the Fight Against COVID-19

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

In a recent paper in the journal Science , researchers used blood drawn from a COVID-19 survivor to identify a pair of previously unknown antibodies that specifically block SARS-CoV-2 from attaching to human cells [2]. They were then able to produce many identical copies of each antibody, referred to as monoclonal antibodies.

Virus 52
article thumbnail

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. More importantly for Veesler’s research, bats host a wide range of viruses—more than any other mammal species. But Veesler doesn’t consider himself a visionary by expanding his research to bats.

Virus 52
article thumbnail

Antibody-drug conjugates payloads: then, now and next

Drug Target Review

The research community pressed on, turning to novel compounds that were substantially more potent than those used in the first generation. Associating immunomodulatory and cytotoxic payloads on the same ADC could also amplify the therapeutic effect of cytotoxic payloads harnessing the power of the immune system to target tumour cells.