Children's Cold Recovery Study
Pharmaceuticals

How children fend off colds in the first three years of life, Research finds out

Anyone who has had children remembers how many colds they got during their first three years of life. Whether novel respiratory viruses like SARS-CoV-2 or routine respiratory viruses, they lack repeated exposures that provide long-term immune protection. Nevertheless, they manage to recover remarkably well. How they do so has remained elusive, however. Now, a team […]

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A clinical study of the combination of AstraZeneca and Sputnik Light vaccines in Azerbaijan shows strong neutralizing antibodies growth in the majority of participants

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund), AstraZeneca and R-Pharm announce preliminary virus neutralizing activity results of combined use of the AstraZeneca vaccine (developed jointly with the University of Oxford) and the first component of the Sputnik V vaccine (Sputnik Light vaccine based on human adenovirus serotype 26) obtained during the clinical […]

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Sputnik V vaccine elicits high IGG antibodies and neutralizing antibodies titers, a study in Argentina published in international Cell Reports Medicine journal shows

MOSCOW — The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund), investor in the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus, today announced results of a study in Argentina on vaccine’s IgG anti-spike titers and neutralizing capacity in non-infected and previously infected persons among healthcare workers. The research evaluates SARS-CoV-2-specific antibody responses after vaccination of […]