The company was able to rapidly produce a potential COVID-19 vaccine by recasting phages as a platform on which to display epitopes of interest obtained from screening convalescent plasma and ...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has ... are more likely to lose their neutralizing activities as the viral epitopes (e.g. the receptor-binding domain, RBD) within spike protein ...

Since COVID-19 first took off, political leaders, infectious disease specialists, and the lay public have debated its origins. Eventually, two hypotheses emerged: Either the virus crossed over ...

T cells . . . react to specific viral epitopes, often short protein sequences ... Part of what we have to realize with COVID is we’re learning as we go. As the virus changes and as our response to the ...

The researchers focused on the COVID-19 virus because it had many complex antigen-binding sequences and epitopes, the ...