#Antibodies

Apoorva Mandavilli

apoorva_nyc

NEW: We know children rarely get sick from the coronavirus. A new study shows that they make a less diverse and weaker set of antibodies than adults do, suggesting that

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

NEW STUDY: A Chinese study shows people infected with COVID-19 lose antibodies after only a few months. A good summary article is here:https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/chinese-study-antibodies-covid-19-patients-fade-quick

Brian Hjelle, virologist

hjelle_brian

Why do virologists hold "cytotoxic T cells" (CTL) in near equal reverence to antiviral antibodies in immunity to viruses? For damn good reason (thread)... CTL specifically recognize viral invaders by

Maryland Man Son

fearwig

so like, they have people from february they can test to see if they still show antibodies right? are we not hearing about that because the answer is "they're all

Rebecca Morelle

BBCMorelle

Very good news on #Novavax vaccine in UK trial - reduced efficacy in South Africa (50-60%) not so great news (1) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55850352 Interesting as this vaccine trial was able to

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Let’s talk about immunity and why it’s important to take certain factors into consideration when we look at these studies and maybe why the most recent one on AstraZeneca’s effectiveness

Michael Mina

michaelmina_lab

This is one of the best reports about immunity to #COVID19It doesn’t sensationalize anything and gets insights from leading immunologists all pointing at the same -> immunity to COVID is

Florian Krammer

florian_krammer

1) If we want to generate difficult viral escape mutants in the lab (e.g. for epitope mapping), we subject the virus to low antibody pressure and then slowly move up.

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

With all due respect, you as an epidemiologist should be quite ashamed for pushing such fear-mongering tweets and circulating this highly misleading study. You are relying on the fact that

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

QEPrize

Hello everyone! I'm Esther Odekunle (@EstOdek) and today I'll be tweeting from @QEPrize to take you on a journey of what being an antibody engineer is all about. Hold on

Vincent Rajkumar

VincentRK

1/ When you get vaccinated you don’t make just one type of antibody. You make a whole portfolio of antibodies against various epitopes. So unless there is a huge number

Ted Petrou

TedPetrou

India has soundly defeated covid with herd immunity.https://coronavirus.dunderdata.com/ Seroprevalence studies show up to 75% positive for covid antibodies.True incidence rate is likely higher as antibodies decay or go undetected.India

tyro

DoubleEph

The more I read about mRNA, the more I’m in awe of how it makes the old process of making vaccines (which have worked ok for a while) look complicated

Dr. Ali Nouri

AliNouriPhD

1/BREAKING on #SARS_CoV_2 variants: the emerging variants in South Africa and Brazil that harbor the E484K mutation have "greatly reduced susceptibility" to neutralization by polyclonal serum antibodies derived from some

Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

New study, "observed that IgG levels & neutralizing antibodies in a high proportion of individuals who recovered from #SARSCoV2 infection start to decrease w/in 2–3 mos after infection. In another

Dr. David Pate

drpatesblog

It’s a long and complicated answer, but here is the gist of it. We know that an individual’s immune response to a virus varies from person to person. As a

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