This has to be the moment to invest in coronavirus vaccines and treatments against future pandemics, experts warn
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This has to be the moment to invest in coronavirus vaccines and treatments against future pandemics, experts warn
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Dolly Parton announces she s donating $1 million to help find a cure for the coronavirus; Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Dr. James Crowe joins The Daily Briefing.
The country music icon stunned fans in 2020 when she donated $1 million to COVID-19 research being done at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, the donation made by Parton and the work done by researchers at Vanderbilt during trial phases directly led to Moderna announcing it had produced a coronavirus vaccine that is nearly 95% effective.
Speaking of her donation to the Associated Press, the songstress said: Well, I follow my heart. I’m a person of faith and I pray all the time that God will lead me into the right direction and let me know what to do.
Novel neutralizing antibodies targeting SARS-CoV-2 N-terminal domain discovered
The main thrust of scientific research on therapeutics to counter the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been aimed at identifying drugs and antibodies that can act against the entry of the causative virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), into the host cell.
A new study by US-based researchers shows the presence of protective antibodies that target the N-terminal domain (NTD) of the spike instead of the spike receptor-binding domain (RBD).
Spike protein
Viral entry is mediated by the spike protein of the virus, which binds to the host cell receptor, angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), via the RBD. The spike is a trimeric glycoprotein with two subunits to each protomer, the S1 and the S2. The S1 contains the RBD, and is responsible for binding the ACE2.