by Annie De Groot | Jan 23, 2016 | News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
Graduate student Lu He, working with EpiVax CEO De Groot and collaborator Chris Bailey Kellog, recently reported that bacteria ‘copy and paste’ sequences from the human genome to escape immune response. She calls this escape mechanism “bacterial...
by Annie De Groot | Jan 21, 2016 | Featured, News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
An academic version of this blog post, that explains why epitope redundancy provides resiliency (to bacteria) and weakness (to immune defense) can be found here. . . . So a guy named Elledge has discovered a way to test your blood for the viruses that you’ve...
by Annie De Groot | Jan 21, 2016 | Featured, News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
An academic version of this blog post, that explains why epitope redundancy provides resiliency (to bacteria) and weakness (to immune defense) can be found here. . . . So a guy named Elledge has discovered a way to test your blood for the viruses that you’ve...
by Annie De Groot | Sep 25, 2015 | News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
Researchers at EpiVax and University of Rhode Island explain H7N9 influenza vaccine failure: Pathogen developed ‘Immune Camouflage’ to hide from human immune response The avian influenza A(H7N9) virus has been a major concern since the first outbreak in China in 2013....
by Annie De Groot | Aug 10, 2015 | News
MERIDEN, Conn. – Another flu season is fast approaching, and with it, concerns about the potential effectiveness of flu vaccines to combat two strains of flu virus expected to be in circulation, it seemed like a good time to do a story on Protein Sciences and its...