mRNA-based therapeutics: powerful and versatile tools to combat diseases

S Qin, X Tang, Y Chen, K Chen, N Fan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The therapeutic use of messenger RNA (mRNA) has fueled great hope to combat a wide
range of incurable diseases. Recent rapid advances in biotechnology and molecular …

The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

K Tao, PL Tzou, J Nouhin, RK Gupta… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The past several months have witnessed the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with novel
spike protein mutations that are influencing the epidemiological and clinical aspects of the …

Progress of the COVID-19 vaccine effort: viruses, vaccines and variants versus efficacy, effectiveness and escape

JS Tregoning, KE Flight, SL Higham, Z Wang… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Where 2020 saw the development and testing of vaccines against severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) at an unprecedented pace, the first half of 2021 has …

The germinal centre B cell response to SARS-CoV-2

BJ Laidlaw, AH Ellebedy - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
The germinal centre (GC) response is critical for the generation of affinity-matured plasma
cells and memory B cells capable of mediating long-term protective immunity …

mRNA vaccines in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

MJ Hogan, N Pardi - Annual review of medicine, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), emerged in China in December 2019 and quickly spread around …

Pan-sarbecovirus neutralizing antibodies in BNT162b2-immunized SARS-CoV-1 survivors

CW Tan, WN Chia, BE Young, F Zhu… - … England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of
concern pose a challenge to the effectiveness of current vaccines. A vaccine that could …

Reactogenicity and immunogenicity after a late second dose or a third dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 in the UK: a substudy of two randomised controlled trials (COV001 …

A Flaxman, NG Marchevsky, D Jenkin, J Aboagye… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background COVID-19 vaccine supply shortages are causing concerns about compromised
immunity in some countries as the interval between the first and second dose becomes …

[HTML][HTML] Current approaches of nanomedicines in the market and various stage of clinical translation

X Shan, X Gong, J Li, J Wen, Y Li, Z Zhang - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared with traditional drug therapy, nanomedicines exhibit intriguing biological features
to increase therapeutic efficiency, reduce toxicity and achieve targeting delivery. This review …

COVID-19 in dialysis: clinical impact, immune response, prevention, and treatment

K El Karoui, AS De Vriese - Kidney International, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has profound adverse effects on the population on dialysis.
Patients requiring dialysis are at an increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality …

Neutralizing antibody activity in convalescent sera from infection in humans with SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern

L Dupont, LB Snell, C Graham, J Seow, B Merrick… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
COVID-19 vaccine design and vaccination rollout need to take into account a detailed
understanding of antibody durability and cross-neutralizing potential against SARS-CoV-2 …