Coronavirus vaccination: body builds immune memory in organs

Memory cells in the liver, kidneys, and lungs

13-Oct-2023 - One shot in the arm, and the whole body is protected. But how? For one thing, the immune system produces antibodies and cells that patrol the entire organism by traveling through the bloodstream. For another, as shown by a recent Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin study of the mRNA coronavirus ...

Innovative corona vaccine developed

New vaccine technology could protect from future Coronaviruses and variants

05-Oct-2023 - Studies of a ‘future-proof’ vaccine antigen candidate have shown that just one antigen can be modified to provide a broadly protective immune response in animals, suggesting that a single vaccine with combinations of these novel antigens could protect against an even greater range of current and ...

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman receive Nobel Prize for discoveries in the fight against corona

04-Oct-2023 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The ...

Moderna and Immatics Announce Strategic Multi-Platform Collaboration

Develop Innovative Oncology Therapeutics

13-Sep-2023 - Moderna, Inc. and Immatics N.V. announced a strategic research and development collaboration to pioneer novel and transformative therapies for cancer patients with high unmet medical need. This broad multi-platform collaboration will leverage the deep scientific expertise and core operational ...

Protection for cancer patients

T-cell activator offers protection against coronaviruses in immunocompromised patients

28-Aug-2023 - Good news for patients with acquired or congenital immunodeficiency: The results of a clinical phase II study at the University Hospital Tübingen led by Prof. Dr. Juliane Walz and Prof. Dr. Helmut Salih show an effective activation of T cells against the coronavirus. After positive results in ...

Not indifferent: why it may be better to get pricked in the same arm for multiple vaccinations

17-Aug-2023 - Most people have a few thoughts before a vaccination: Will it hurt? Will I get a fever? Will the injection site hurt? However, the question of whether it is better to have a multiple vaccination administered in the same arm or whether it is better to have it administered on the right and then on ...

Vaccine developer enters company growth phase

Verovacines completes the validation of its vaccine and manufacturing platforms

13-Jul-2023 - For the German vaccine specialist Verovaccines, all technological prerequisites are now in place to enter a new phase of the company’s development. During the validation phase both technology platforms have been significantly de-risked: The Unified Vaccine Platform has been validated in vivo ...

Measles-Based Vector Vaccine Protects Mice against Influenza A (H7N9) Virus

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses such as the influenza A virus subtype H7N9 could potentially cause future influenza pandemics

11-Jul-2023 - Researchers at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI), in cooperation with the Philipps-Universität Marburg, used the "recombinant measles vaccine virus" vaccine platform to test vaccine candidates against the dangerous avian H7N9 influenza virus in an animal model. Vectored vaccines with a blueprint of ...

Helping the human body to fight diseases

Research into and development of mRNA-based therapeutics by a consortium of universities, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and BioNTech

16-Jun-2023 - A new funding program of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) aiming to improve production capacities and fostering research into and the development of specialty lipids and other auxiliaries used in mRNA vaccines and mRNA pharmaceutical will give funding to ...

Key to a cheaper and more accessible Hib vaccine found

Possible approach for new vaccines and drugs against bacteria

12-Jun-2023 - The bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) can cause severe diseases such as meningitis and blood poisoning in young children. Researchers from the MHH Institute of Clinical Biochemistry have deciphered the pathway of the bacterial capsule and thus created the basis for producing the Hib ...