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8 Of The Most Common Foods Allergies – Do You Have One?

Delveinsight

As per the Food Allergy Research & Education, in the US, each year, around 200,000 people require emergency medical care for allergic reactions to food. Food allergy is a specific immune response to certain food items that it considers harmful. What are the most common food allergies? Egg Allergy.

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Pregnant women show robust immune response to COVID vaccines, pass antibodies to newborns

Scienmag

The largest study of its kind to date also found benefit for lactating women BOSTON – In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have found the new mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be highly effective in […].

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HIV vaccines suffer setbacks but new approaches could turn the tide

Pharmaceutical Technology

Since HIV integrates with the DNA, eliminating the virus from the body is very difficult, explains David Montefiori, PhD, director of the Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine Research and Development at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. This response was also seen in the RV 144 trial, she notes.

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New Research Shows IBS Symptoms May be Caused by Gut Infections

XTalks

Researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium have found a potential mechanism underlying irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) that involves activation of immune cells primed by past gastrointestinal infections. However, IBS patients do not have allergies to any given foods, nor any gastrointestinal conditions, such as celiac disease.

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Children produce different antibodies in response to SARS-CoV-2

Scienmag

5, 2020)–Children and adults produce different types and amounts of antibodies in response to infection with the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, a new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found. NEW YORK, NY (Nov.

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Nanoparticle universal flu vaccine enters Phase I trials

Drug Discovery World

The trial is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH, and will evaluate the investigational vaccine for safety and its ability to elicit an immune response. “An The vaccine produced robust antibody responses in animal testing.

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Zydus starts Phase II COVID-19 vaccine trial; Taysha raises $95M; FDA declines DBV’s peanut allergy patch; Combating COVID-19 with decoy target

Delveinsight

By ordering human cells to make the protein, ZyCoV-D could cause an immune response against the coronavirus. Scientists have already isolated many highly potent neutralizing antibodies from patients who recovered from COVID-19. FDA turns back peanut allergy patch of DBV Technologies. The agency raised no safety concerns.