Washington University School of Medicine scientists have identified an antibody that is highly protective against a broad range of COVID-19 viral variants.
Getty Images Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found antibodies that protect against specific mosquito-borne viruses that cause arthritis and brain infections. The findings could lead to a universal therapy or vaccine for the viruses.
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Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, (left) and Sean Whelan, PhD, collaborate on research into the virus that causes COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, they cooperated to build a laboratory where the novel coronavirus could be studied.
A new episode of our podcast, “Show Me the Science,” has been posted. At present, these podcast episodes are highlighting research and patient care on the Washington University Medical Campus as our scientists and clinicians confront the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even before the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the United States, Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine, started setting the stage with Sean Whelan, PhD, the Marvin A. Brennecke Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology, for scientists at the university to study the virus. Whelan had just arrived in St. Louis to begin his new role as head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and didn’t even have an operational laboratory when the tw