once he does here is what will happen. there will immediate i will be an extension of unemployment benefits through september. billions for state and local governments, billions for schools, billions for vaccine distribution, and expansion of the child tax credit and those $1400 direct stimulus checks. but that right there is only part of the big news that has come out today. a year after the w.h.o. declared a global pandemic we got some of the best news yet. a new study shows the pfizer vaccine prevents near all asymptomatic infections. a huge step towards ending this pandemic and getting us back to normal. on top of that the pfizer vaccine shows it is 97% effective at stopping hospitalizations and deaths including against the uk variant which doctors say is more contagious. it is incredible news delivered at an incredible speed. tonight president bide listen deliver his first prime time address to the nation and he is expected to recognize the immense lost that we have suff
At the 30th Annual Congress of the European Society for Gene and Cell Therapy in Brussels this week, researchers presented both preclinical and clinical strategies for applying gene therapy to a functional HIV cure. At a Wednesday session on Infectious Diseases & Vaccines, Alessio Nahmad, of Tabby Therapeutics Ltd., described using B cells edited to express broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) 3BNC117 to deliver high titers of antibodies in mice.
at lung cancer patients, they spotted the patients that had better outcomes. the ones that were more likely to survive had a cluster of a very specific type of immune cell going around their tumour. and these are are known as b cells, and they re the cells that produce antibodies inside our bodies. so you might have been familiar with those from the covid pandemic, the things that go around, hunt out and seek out and destroy viruses. and the same process is going on in part of how the body attacks cancer, except instead of attacking a current infection. in a weird way, it s attacking one from millions of years ago. let s speak to cancer biologistjulian downward, who s associate research director of the francis crick institute. i sitting is this? that one that we are 8% viruses a new one for me for sure how significant is this? the sure how significant is this? the focus on the sure how significant is this? tue: focus on the cancer, sure how significant is this? tte: focus