TWiV 779: Evolving boosterism

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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