A majority of uninfected adults show pre-existing antibody reactivity against SARS-CoV-2
More details on the link https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.146316 19 March 2021
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Remembering seasonal coronaviruses
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has differential effects according to age, with symptomatic and severe infections mostly occurring in older adults. One possible explanation for this variation is that children and younger adults have more preexisting immunity against seasonal human coronaviruses (HCoVs) that cross-react with SARS-CoV-2, providing protection from severe and even symptomatic …
Immunoglobulin immunotherapy for coronavirus disease
Clinical efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in critical ill patients with COVID‐19: a multicenter retrospective cohort study Intravenous immunoglobulin immunotherapy for coronavirus disease‐19 (COVID‐19)
EU to create new biomedical research agency modelled on BARDA
The European Union will set up its own agency for biomedical research and will convene a global health summit in Italy next year to prepare for future pandemics, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.As a first step, it is proposed to strengthen and expand the capacity of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and …
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COVID-19 and immunity
An article by American scientists David Stephens and M. McElrath analyzed the available information on the humoral and cellular immune response in people infected with SARS-CoV-2. Among other things, the issue of reducing the level of protective antibodies in people who have undergone COVID-19 is discussed. Article “COVID-19 and the Path to Immunity” (Journal of …
The Library at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute celebrates its 40th anniversary
On September 1st in 1980, a new (and since then the only) building of the Library of Science and Technology was opened on the campus of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute on the Square of Knowledge. This day has become significant not only for the engineers, but also for the entire scientific and student community: …
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The Ministry of Youth and Sports will cooperate with Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
The Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine for Digital Development, Digital Transformations and Digitalization Vitaliy Lavrov visited Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. During the visit, the government official and the university administration discussed the vectors of future cooperation and agreed to sign a memorandum of cooperation in the nearest future. “One of the …
Congratulations on the Day of Knowledge!
Dear Kyiv engineers, students, lecturers, staff! The new academic year begins today. It has never taken place in empty auditoriums, without the traditional celebration of Kyiv engineers on the Square of Knowledge, without thousands, ten thousands smiling faces of young people who came to the university to build their future. The COVID-19 pandemic, which shook …
Congratulations to the winners of the award competition for the best textbooks, manuals and monographs in 2020
The winners of the award competition of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute for the best textbooks, manuals, monographs this year were: Nataliya Dmytrivna Pankratova, the Deputy Director of IASA, the author of the textbook “Systems Analysis. Theory and Application” (the first prize) [description in uk]; Prof. Vitaliy Anatoliyovych Pasichnyk, Assoc. Prof. Yuriy Ivanovych Adamenko, Assoc. Prof. …
Immunological status of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)
Scientific articles by Chinese scientists: Clinical and immunological assessment of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with COVID-19