Review of the immune mechanisms of preeclampsia and the potential of immune modulating therapy

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TRIGGERED: could refocused cell signaling be key to natural killer cell-based HIV immunotherapeutics?

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Recombinant MVA-prime elicits neutralizing antibody responses by inducing antigen-specific B cells in the germinal center

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Eslamizar L, Petrovas C, Leggat DJ, Furr K, Lifton ML, Levine G, Ma S, Fletez-Brant C, Hoyland W, Prabhakaran M, Narpala S, Boswell K, Yamamoto T, Liao HX, Pickup D, Ramsburg E, Sutherland L, McDermott A, Roederer M, Montefiori D, Koup RA, Haynes BF, Letvin NL, Santra S. Recombinant MVA-prime elicits neutralizing antibody responses by inducing antigen-specific B cells in the germinal center. NPJ Vaccines. 2021 Jan 25;6(1):15. doi: 10.1038/s41541-020-00277-1. PMID: 33495459; PMCID: PMC7835239.

Interim Results of a Phase 1–2a Trial of Ad26.COV2.S Covid-19 Vaccine

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Sadoff, Jerald, Georgi Shukarev, Dirk Heerwegh, Carla Truyers, Anne M. De Groot, Jeroen Stoop, Sarah Tete, Wim VanDamme, Isabel Leroux-Roels, Pieter-Jan Berghmans, Murray Kimmel, Pierre Van Damme, Jan De Hoon, William Smith, Kathryn Stephenson, Stephen De Rosa, Kristen Cohen, Juliana McElrath, Emmanuel Cormier, Gert Scheper, Dan Barouch, Jenny Hendriks, Frank Struyf, Macaya Douoguih, Johan Van Hoof, and Henneke Schuitemaker. “Interim Results of a Phase 1–2a Trial of Ad26.COV2.S Covid-19 Vaccine.” The New England Journal of Medicine (2021). Print.

Lipid nanoparticle encapsulated nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccines elicit polyfunctional HIV-1 antibodies comparable to proteins in nonhuman primates

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Skipped Over: Tuning Natural Killer Cells Toward HIV Through Alternative Splicing

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D614G Spike Mutation Increases SARS CoV-2 Susceptibility to Neutralization

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Assessment of Maternal and Neonatal SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load, Transplacental Antibody Transfer, and Placental Pathology in Pregnancies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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HIV-1 replication complexes accumulate in nuclear speckles and integrate into speckle-associated genomic domains

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Francis AC, Marin M, Singh PK, Achuthan V, Prellberg MJ, Palermino-Rowland K, Lan S, Tedbury PR, Sarafianos SG, Engelman AN, Melikyan GB. HIV-1 replication complexes accumulate in nuclear speckles and integrate into speckle-associated genomic domains. Nat Commun. 2020 Jul 14;11(1):3505. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17256-8. Erratum in: Nat Commun. 2020 Nov 26;11(1):6165. PMID: 32665593; PMCID: PMC7360574.