mRNA-based therapeutics: powerful and versatile tools to combat diseases

S Qin, X Tang, Y Chen, K Chen, N Fan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The therapeutic use of messenger RNA (mRNA) has fueled great hope to combat a wide
range of incurable diseases. Recent rapid advances in biotechnology and molecular …

Therapeutic peptides: current applications and future directions

L Wang, N Wang, W Zhang, X Cheng, Z Yan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Peptide drug development has made great progress in the last decade thanks to new
production, modification, and analytic technologies. Peptides have been produced and …

Attenuated fusogenicity and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

R Suzuki, D Yamasoba, I Kimura, L Wang, M Kishimoto… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The emergence of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is an urgent global health concern. In
this study, our statistical modelling suggests that Omicron has spread more rapidly than the …

[HTML][HTML] Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA. 2 spike

D Yamasoba, I Kimura, H Nasser, Y Morioka, N Nao… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Soon after the emergence and global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineage BA. 1,
another Omicron lineage, BA. 2, began outcompeting BA. 1. The results of statistical analysis …

The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2

JE Pekar, A Magee, E Parker, N Moshiri, K Izhikevich… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding the circumstances that lead to pandemics is important for their prevention.
We analyzed the genomic diversity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

Increased memory B cell potency and breadth after a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA boost

F Muecksch, Z Wang, A Cho, C Gaebler, T Ben Tanfous… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 infected many vaccinated and convalescent
individuals,–. Despite the reduced protection from infection, individuals who received three …

Global landscape of SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance and data sharing

Z Chen, AS Azman, X Chen, J Zou, Y Tian, R Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Genomic surveillance has shaped our understanding of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants. We performed a global landscape analysis on SARS …

The emergence, genomic diversity and global spread of SARS-CoV-2

J Li, S Lai, GF Gao, W Shi - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Since the first cases of COVID-19 were documented in Wuhan, China in 2019, the world has
witnessed a devastating global pandemic, with more than 238 million cases, nearly 5 million …

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 and implications for therapeutic development

H Yang, Z Rao - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), is an unprecedented global health crisis. However, therapeutic options for …

mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases: principles, delivery and clinical translation

N Chaudhary, D Weissman… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past several decades, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have progressed from a
scepticism-inducing idea to clinical reality. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic catalysed the …