TWiV 779: Evolving boosterism
Episode 779 of the This Week in Virology podcast, hosted by Vincent Racaniello, titled "TWiV 779: Evolving boosterism" was published on July 11, 2021 and runs 99 minutes.
July 11, 2021 ·99m · This Week in Virology
Episode Description
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: Vincent 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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