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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 07:52 AM Aug 2022

One for All? New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in lab tests

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/one-all

One for All?

New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in lab tests

By NANCY FLIESLER | Boston Children’s
August 15, 2022

4 min read

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19.

As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, newer variants of SARS-CoV-2 have been evolving ways to evade the antibodies our bodies make in response to vaccination or prior infections. Breakthrough cases have resulted, and antibody treatments that once worked also have become less effective over time.

Scientists have been searching for an antibody that would be broadly neutralizing — able to fight off any viral variant that might emerge.

An antibody developed by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital now seems to fit the bill.

In lab tests, it neutralized all currently known SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, including all omicron variants.

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One for All? New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in lab tests (Original Post) sl8 Aug 2022 OP
Game changer! Bayard Aug 2022 #1
Great news! Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #2
Seems all of the medical breakthroughs come from universities and multigraincracker Aug 2022 #3
Probably works like this: ret5hd Aug 2022 #4
And one more -- pharma gets the patents on final production process. nt Pobeka Aug 2022 #5
Great dweller Aug 2022 #6
One antibody to rule them all and in the darkness bind them! tanyev Aug 2022 #7

multigraincracker

(34,077 posts)
3. Seems all of the medical breakthroughs come from universities and
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 08:24 AM
Aug 2022

not big pharma. Yet they use research cost to justify higher prices. I could be wrong, but it seems that way to me.

ret5hd

(21,320 posts)
4. Probably works like this:
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 08:34 AM
Aug 2022

Pharma “donates” to university
Pharma gets tax deduction
Pharma gets research results
Pharma gets grant to develop drugs
Pharma gets profit

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