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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial. COVID-19 Clinical Trials.

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Medicago’s Plant-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Human Trials

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Update (November 11, 2020): Quebec-based biopharmaceutical company Medicago has announced positive results from a Phase I trial of its candidate plant-derived vaccine. Interim results of the trial show that all participants developed an antibody response after two doses of the COVID-19 adjuvanted vaccine candidate.

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Merck’s Next-Generation Pneumonia Vaccine Gets FDA Approval

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Compared to Vaxneuvance’s targeting of 15 different strains of the bacterium, Pfizer’s shot protects against 20. While Merck’s previous shot, Pneumovax 23, defends against 23 serotypes and has been on the market for almost four decades, the immune responses it generates are not as durable as Prevnar 13.

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New Research Shows IBS Symptoms May be Caused by Gut Infections

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While diseases like celiac are associated with inappropriate activation of the immune system triggered by food antigens, this is not the case in IBS. In a normal, healthy intestine, foods do not trigger immune responses and so in a patient with IBS, something else must activate the response. Mouse and Human Studies.