The Diploid Duo
By Nicole and Qian Hua
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The Diploid DuoMar 24, 2021
TDD Episode 3 – Addressing your COVID19 concerns and introducing LUNAR-COV19: A new and upcoming vaccine (part 2)
This episode of TDD, Nicole and Qian Hua, joined by special guest Professor Ooi Eng Eong, address more concerns the public has about the COVID19 vaccines and discuss further about the Science behind the vaccines. Prof Ooi co-directs the Viral Research and Experimental Medicine Centre at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre. He is also a professor at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the National University of Singapore. Prof Ooi also introduces an upcoming COVID19 vaccine, LUNAR-COV19, which he is co-developing with American pharmaceutical company Arcturus Therapeutics. This episode is the first part of a two-part series.
References
2. https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/encourage-take-up-covid-19-vaccine-govt-officials-will-go-door-to-door-address-concerns-gan-kim-yong
5. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-safe-to-delay-a-second-covid-vaccine-dose/
6. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/vaccine-inventory-management.html
7. https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/vaccination
9. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00409-0
11. https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n597
13. https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n567
14.https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2021/01/covid-19-vaccine-singapore/index.html?shell
TDD 5-Minute Journal Club mini-series episode 3
For today's 5-minute journal club, Nicole presented on a Stem Cell Translational Medicine article 'Longitudinal neuroimaging evaluation of the corticospinal tract in patients with stroke treated with autologous bone marrow cells' from a group at University of Texas Health Science Center. Link to the article: https://stemcellsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sctm.20-0369
TDD Episode 2 – Addressing your COVID19 concerns and introducing LUNAR-COV19: A new and upcoming vaccine (part 1)
This episode of TDD, Nicole and Qian Hua, joined by special guest Professor Ooi Eng Eong, address more concerns the public has about the COVID19 vaccines and discuss further about the Science behind the vaccines. Prof Ooi co-directs the Viral Research and Experimental Medicine Centre at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre. He is also a professor at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the National University of Singapore. Prof Ooi also introduces an upcoming COVID19 vaccine, LUNAR-COV19, which he is co-developing with American pharmaceutical company Arcturus Therapeutics. This episode is the first part of a two-part series.
References
2. https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/encourage-take-up-covid-19-vaccine-govt-officials-will-go-door-to-door-address-concerns-gan-kim-yong
5. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-safe-to-delay-a-second-covid-vaccine-dose/
6. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/vaccine-inventory-management.html
7. https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/vaccination
9. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00409-0
11. https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n597
13. https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n567
14.https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2021/01/covid-19-vaccine-singapore/index.html?shell
TDD 5-Minute Journal Club mini-series episode 2
For today's 5-minute journal club, Nicole presented on a Nature Communications article 'Transneuronal delivery of hyper-interleukin-6 enables functional recovery after severe spinal cord injury in mice' from a group at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Here is the link to the article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33452250/
TDD Episode 1 - Let's talk about the elephant in the room: COVID19 vaccines
In this episode of TDD, Nicole and Qian Hua gave a crash course on vaccinations and dived into the specifics of the different COVID19 vaccines that are starting to be distributed and administered globally. They also answered all of the pressing questions you have pertaining to the vaccines.
References:
Pfizer studies:
Phase 1/2 - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2639-4
Phase 2/3 - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577
https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download
Moderna studies:
Prelim/ Phase 1 - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2022483 (July 2020)
Phase 2/3 - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2035389 (Dec 2020)
https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/download
Sinovac studies:
Phase 1/2 - https://www.thelancet.com/article/S1473-3099(20)30843-4/fulltext (November 2020)
AstraZeneca studies:
Phase 1 - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31604-4/fulltext
Phase 2/3 - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32661-1/fulltext
Other articles:
https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/types-of-vaccine
https://www.vox.com/21590994/oxford-vaccine-results-covid-19-astrazeneca-trial-pfizer-moderna
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32661-1/fulltext
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.18.426984v1
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55212787
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-vaccine-idUSKBN2710UQ
TDD 5-Minute Journal Club mini-series episode 1
For today's 5-Minute journal club, Nicole presented on the Cell article 'Top-Down Control of Sweet and Bitter Taste in the Mammalian Brain' from the Zuker Lab in Columbia University, U.S.A. Here is the link to the article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33417862/
TDD Episode 0 - Who are we?
This episode of TDD, Nicole and Qian Hua introduces themselves, tell a story of how they met and explain what 'The Diploid Duo' is.
Nicole's Science blog - www.two-cells.com