[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 vaccine update: vaccine effectiveness, SARS-CoV-2 variants, boosters, adverse effects, and immune correlates of protection

WY Chi, YD Li, HC Huang, TEH Chan, SY Chow… - Journal of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been the most severe public health
challenge in this century. Two years after its emergence, the rapid development and …

[HTML][HTML] Rise of the RNA machines–self-amplification in mRNA vaccine design

JDG Comes, GP Pijlman, TAH Hick - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
Abstract mRNA vaccines have won the race for early COVID-19 vaccine approval, yet
improvements are necessary to retain this leading role in combating infectious diseases. A …

Omicron spike function and neutralizing activity elicited by a comprehensive panel of vaccines

JE Bowen, A Addetia, HV Dang, C Stewart, JT Brown… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant of
concern comprises several sublineages, with BA. 2 and BA. 2.12. 1 having replaced the …

[HTML][HTML] mRNA-1273 or mRNA-Omicron boost in vaccinated macaques elicits similar B cell expansion, neutralizing responses, and protection from Omicron

M Gagne, JI Moliva, KE Foulds, SF Andrew, BJ Flynn… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is highly transmissible and has substantial resistance to
neutralization following immunization with ancestral spike-matched vaccines. It is unclear …

[HTML][HTML] Omicron-specific mRNA vaccination alone and as a heterologous booster against SARS-CoV-2

Z Fang, L Peng, R Filler, K Suzuki, A McNamara… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 recently swept the globe and showed high level of
immune evasion. Here, we generate an Omicron-specific lipid nanoparticle (LNP) mRNA …

[HTML][HTML] ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) or nCoV-19-Beta (AZD2816) protect Syrian hamsters against Beta Delta and Omicron variants

N van Doremalen, JE Schulz, DR Adney… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) is a replication-deficient simian adenovirus–
vectored vaccine encoding the spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2, based on the first …

[HTML][HTML] A localizing nanocarrier formulation enables multi-target immune responses to multivalent replicating RNA with limited systemic inflammation

T Kimura, JM Leal, A Simpson, NL Warner, BJ Berube… - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
RNA vaccines possess significant clinical promise in counteracting human diseases caused
by infectious or cancerous threats. Self-amplifying replicon RNA (repRNA) has been thought …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 Omicron triggers cross-reactive neutralization and Fc effector functions in previously vaccinated, but not unvaccinated, individuals

SI Richardson, VS Madzorera, H Spencer… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2022 - cell.com
Summary The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant escapes neutralizing antibodies elicited by
vaccines or infection. However, whether Omicron triggers cross-reactive humoral responses …

[HTML][HTML] Replicating RNA vaccination elicits an unexpected immune response that efficiently protects mice against lethal Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus …

SS Leventhal, K Meade-White, D Rao, E Haddock… - …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus is the cause of a severe
hemorrhagic fever with cases reported throughout a wide-geographic region. Spread by the …

A circular mRNA vaccine prototype producing VFLIP-X spike confers a broad neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants by mouse sera

C Seephetdee, K Bhukhai, N Buasri… - Antiviral research, 2022 - Elsevier
Next-generation COVID-19 vaccines are critical due to the ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-
2 virus and rapid waning duration of the neutralizing antibody response against current …