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Research 2022/07/14
A hybrid mRNA vaccine induced broadly neutralizing antibodies against Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants

 

Wuhan wild-type strain-based vaccines became almost ineffective against new SARS-CoV-2 variants. Academia Sinica mRNA Alpha team constructed a hybrid mRNA vaccine containing mutations of Omicron and Delta variants. When used as a booster in mice previously immunized with wild-type vaccine, the hybrid vaccine induced high titers of broadly neutralizing antibodies against all tested variants, as well as T cell responses against conserved T cell epitope. This hybrid vaccine also includes important mutation sites of Omicron BA.4/5, its effectiveness against the new dominant strains is being explored.

 

*Article Link: https://jbiomedsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12929-022-00830-1

 

*The co-first authors, I-Jung Lee is a Ph.D. student of Graduate Institute of Microbiology, National Taiwan University, Cheng-Pu Sun is Project Research Manager, and Ping-Yi Wu is Senior Research Assistant of Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica.

 

*This study was conducted at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences and the Biomedical Translation Research Center, Academia Sinica.

Article link (Journal of Biomedical Science)

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