TWiV 779: Evolving boosterism
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TWiV reviews evidence that COVID-19 mRNA vaccination of both uninfected and previously infected persons elicits cross-variant neutralizing antibodies, and directed evolution of a bacterial protein to form a virus-like capsid that specifically packages its encoding mRNA.
Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode
- mRNA vaccine boosts cross-variant neutralizing Ab (Science)
- mRNA vaccine boosts variant B and T cell responses (Science)
- Directed evolution of virus-like nucleocapsid (Science)
- Letters read on TWiV 779
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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