This week we introduce a brand new segment, the COVID-19 Vaccine Olympics, where we take a look at the current published data and some of the news on the main vaccine candidates.

We also look at some more basic science, and next week we will be looking at TWO papers, looking at two different strategies for answering the same question, how do we make mouse models more relevant to the human situation ?

One strategy is to alter the virus so that it produces a more human like disease :-

The other strategy is to alter the mice to make them more like humans so that they have a human like disease :

Want to know more, tune in next week !

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Check out our Zotero Library for other papers we may look at in future: