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Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

addgene Blog

Viruses are simple – a genome packaged in a protein shell (Taylor, 2014). They’re so simple that we can’t even decide if they’re alive or not. Yet these simple, small particles have quite the outsized impact – and not just on the disease front.

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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

By Allessandra DiCorato April 25, 2024 As night fell on July 20th, 2014, genomicist Christian Happi was at home with his family in Lagos, Nigeria when he received a phone call he would never forget. On October 20th, 2014, as Ebola continued to spread in Guinea and in neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone, WHO declared Nigeria free of Ebola.

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Discovery and development of COVID?19 vaccine from laboratory to clinic

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

WHO proclaimed the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD), in 2014 that killed hundreds of people in West Africa. Current figures show that the epidemic had reached 216 nations, where it had killed about 6,438,926 individuals and infected 590,405,710.

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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

A Novel Virus Appears In retrospect, everything unfolded with astonishing speed. Did it there either recombine with another virus on its own, or inspire a manipulation of another virus of a key part of the spike gene, seeding the pandemic through a “lab leak?” Work on vaccines ensued too. It closed a year ago.

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Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics

Codon

Ebola tore through Western Africa in 2014, killing an estimated 11,325 people in two years. When COVID-19 emerged in 2019, by contrast, mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna took just 326 days from the initial sequencing of the virus to gaining approval for emergency use. Existing medicines only pose a partial solution.

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Every Claim You Make, Every Step You Take…CVM Will Be Watching You

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

However, several of Zenrelias promotional materialsspecifically, FDA looked at a consumer-directed website, a product brochure and risk tracker, and a slide deckomitted the specific phrase from modified live virus vaccines from the boxed warning found in the Important Safety Information.

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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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