SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most dangerous threats to humanity in recent history. At the onset of this global crisis, scientists quickly turned to vaccine development as the primary focus of research, while drug discovery and development has trai…
B cells are the central component of the humoral immune system and critical for long term immunity against all forms of pathogens. Antibodies represent one of the earliest lines of defense within the adaptive memory response and are the major effectors of vaccine mediated protec…
Viruses are ubiquitous, obligate parasites that infect all forms of life. Despite their ubiquity and importance however they are mainly studied only in the contexts where they cause human disease. Most human viruses come from spillover events from other animals, therefore from a…
Zusammenfassung: Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender Fähigkeiten von Systemen der künstlichen Intelligenz, einer durch zügellosen Konsum angestachelten ökologischen Krise und einer Ökonomie, die von einer steigenden Weltbevölkerung abhängt, beschäftigen sich die Autoren mit einer he…