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.
Links for This Episode
- mRNA vaccine boosts cross-variant neutralizing Ab (Science) 4:18.
- mRNA vaccine boosts variant B and T cell responses (Science) 22:13.
- Directed evolution of virus-like nucleocapsid (Science) 34:46.
- Letters read on TWiV 779 59:30.
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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