Medical Xpress

APRIL 6, 2023

The human body is capable of creating a vast, diverse repertoire of antibodies—the Y-shaped sniffer dogs of the immune system that can find and flag foreign invaders. The team's findings, which have implications for our understanding of immunity and public health, are published in Science.

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BioTech 365

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Eurofins Launches Quantitative Antibody Test to Measure Immune Response to COVID-19 and Vaccines Eurofins Launches Quantitative Antibody Test to Measure Immune Response to COVID-19 and Vaccines LUXEMBOURG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eurofins launches a new CE marked serological assay for the identification and quantification … Continue reading (..)

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nearly three years into the pandemic, many of us now carry antibodies against the virus—due to an infection or two, a few doses of mRNA vaccine, or a round of monoclonal-antibody treatment.

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Bio Pharma Dive

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The findings, which were disclosed in a press release without specific data, are the first immune response results in humans for the reformulated shot targeting the BA.4 5 substrains.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 6, 2021

Nina Garrett, R&D director at Abingdon Health discusses the key role antibody testing is playing in the pandemic and how an integrated approach with vaccines could help normal life resume. The three most common types of testing, PCR testing, antigen testing and antibody testing, have quickly become common terms in everyone’s vocabulary.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Formed after exposure to a pathogen or vaccine, germinal centers act as a kind of immune system training academy, helping B cells refine their response to the threat.

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Scienmag

JULY 8, 2022

Researchers at the University of Southampton have gained unprecedented new insight into the key properties of an antibody needed to fight off cancer. The interdisciplinary study, published in Science Immunology, revealed how changing the flexibility of the antibody could stimulate a stronger immune response.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 9, 2021

AstraZeneca’s antibody cocktail for COVID-19, now called Evushield, has become the first drug in the class to be authorised for prevention of infection by the US FDA. The emergency use authorisation (EUA) for Evushield activates a 700,000 order for the antibody from the US government, worth upwards of $726 million.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 16, 2021

Better activation of innate and adaptive immune responses was achieved with CV2CoV, resulting in faster response onset, higher titers of antibodies, and stronger memory B and T cell activation as compared to the first-generation candidate, CVnCoV.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A trial of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has shown the jab produces an immune response, although the study was too small to produce conclusive findings, particularly on safety. All participants in the phase 2 trials (40 participants) produced antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.

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The Pharma Data

MAY 17, 2021

The interim results from the phase 2 trial on the vaccine, published today, on the contrary, showed a “ strong neutralizing antibody response” ? The companies also noted a high immune response after a single dose of the shot in patients with prior infection, indicating, they said, strong booster potential for the jab. “

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Regeneron’s antibody cocktail seems to reduce levels of coronavirus and improve symptoms in patients, according to early test results. REGN-COV2 is a combination of two monoclonal antibodies and was designed to block infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 , the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Peer-reviewed / Randomised Controlled Trial / People Randomised, phase 2 trial of COVID-19 booster vaccines finds seven increase immunity when given 10-12 weeks after two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca, and six increase immunity following two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech. UK trial involving 2,878 adults […].

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 6, 2023

A clinical trial testing a freeze-dried, temperature-stable experimental tuberculosis (TB) vaccine in healthy adults found that it was safe and stimulated both antibodies and responses from the cellular arm of the immune system.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 13, 2022

Preliminary data from an ongoing trial of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria has shown that a booster dose stimulates an increase in antibodies against Omicron, as well as other variants of the virus, including Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Gamma.

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NY Times

MAY 11, 2022

Antibody levels rose in the children who received it, suggesting the vaccine protects against infection. But the data were gathered before the arrival of Omicron.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The presence of special immune system defense molecules, called autoimmune antibodies, has been strongly tied to how poorly people fare when hospitalized with COVID-19, a new study shows.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital show that levels of specific antibodies developed in the immune response may influence COVID-19 outcomes in both children and adults.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

New research presented this week at ACR Convergence 2022, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, showed that a higher dose of pneumococcal vaccine safely and effectively improved antibody response in patients receiving rituximab for ANCA-associated vasculitis.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 5, 2021

AstraZeneca has sought emergency use authorisation for its antibody combination AZD7442, following trial results indicating it can prevent symptomatic COVID-19 infection when given to healthy patients. The post AZ files for emergency use of COVID-19 antibody combo in US appeared first on. Initial results from that study were negative.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A single dose of the COVID-19 monoclonal antibody therapy developing Regeneron reduced the risk of contracting the virus by around 82% for up to eight months, according to new trial data. The post One dose of Regeneron’s COVID antibody protects for eight months appeared first on.

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Scienmag

MARCH 25, 2021

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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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Led by Feinstein Institutes researcher Haichao Wang, the new study focuses on detecting protein mediators that might contribute to uncontrolled immune responses to lethal infections. It explores the monoclonal antibody detection that may work against procathepsin-L (pCTS-L), a pro-inflammatory protein mediator, as the potential remedy.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Pfizer-BioNTech announced Wednesday that preliminary preclinical data from mouse and macaque monkey models showed a strong immune response from its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. .

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago has announced that its investigational COVID-19 vaccine generated “significant antibody and cellular immune responses” after two doses in all subjects in an early-stage clinical trial. Based on the promising phase 1 data, the company plans to proceed with a phase 2/3 clinical trial. “We

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 10, 2023

It will also be used for the treatment of people who are not likely to have an adequate immune response to Covid-19 vaccination or for people who are not recommended for Covid-19 vaccination. Evusheld (formerly AZD7442) is a combination of two long-acting antibodies, tixagevimab (AZD8895) and cilgavimab (AZD1061).

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BioSpace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The company posted an interim analysis of its Phase I/IIa trial that showed a single dose of JNJ-78436735 induced a strong neutralizing antibody response in nearly all participants and was well-tolerated.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A quick stick in the arm with an approved COVID-19 vaccine elicits a flurry of activity in the body’s immune system. While much work has been done to study the antibodies produced in response to these vaccines, less is known about the response by the immune system’s T cells, which offer longer-term protection against the […].

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 22, 2023

SM17 is a humanised IgG4-k monoclonal antibody that targets IL-17RB to treat asthma, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), atopic dermatitis (AD) and other immunological disorders. It can suppress Th2 immune responses by binding to IL-17RB on Type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s).

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BioSpace

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There is new research out of Iceland that suggests the body’s immune response to COVID-19 lasts longer than other research has suggested.

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BioPharma Reporter

MARCH 30, 2021

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are âhighly effectiveâ in producing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in pregnant and lactating women; and also confer protective immunity to newborns, according to a new study.

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BioSpace

AUGUST 13, 2020

A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm triggered antibody-based immune responses in early and mid-stage trials.

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Roots Analysis

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Imagine a world where scientists work together to create special “soldiers” in our bodies called antibodies. Sometimes, scientists ask for help from experts who are really good at finding and designing these antibodies. What are the steps involved in an antibody discovery project? These heroes help to fight diseases.

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Scienmag

MAY 26, 2021

In series of samples collected from individuals vaccinated against COVID-19, an ultrasensitive test detected low concentrations of circulating antigen; Following robust production of antibodies, viral protein declined to undetectable levels The carefully orchestrated dance between the immune system and the viral proteins that induce immunity against (..)

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 28, 2022

Astellas Pharma and Sutro Biopharma have entered a global, strategic partnership and licencing agreement to discover and develop new immunostimulatory antibody-drug conjugates (iADCs). An iADC merges an antibody with a small molecule compound that elicits immunogenic cell death, and an immune-activating molecule.

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BioSpace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A new study report in Science suggests SARS-CoV-2 and its mutated new variants can evade immune responses via the selective deletion of small sections of the virus’s genetic sequence.

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The Pharma Data

MAY 16, 2021

Adjuvanted recombinant COVID-19 vaccine candidate triggered strong neutralizing antibody responses in all adult age groups. High immune response after a single dose in patients with prior infection shows strong booster potential. Global Phase 3 study expected to start in the coming weeks. About the Phase 2 study.

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