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Residency and trafficking of ILC2 under stable and Th2-induced inflammatory conditions

Is it dangerous to be vaccinated if you have already had the coronavirus?

A message received by the editorial staff of LCI.fr is concerned about the possible danger of a vaccine against Covid-19 for people already infected. We respond with Béhazine Combadière, director of research at Inserm.

Covid-19: a needle-free vaccination soon possible?

To meet the demand for vaccines, and to avoid a possible shortage of needles and syringes, start-ups, with the support of certain countries such as Canada, are working on injection methods that are not intramuscular, but through the skin.

Particularly active antibodies as a barrier to SARS-CoV-2

Teams from the Pitié-Salpêtrière AP-HP hospital, Sorbonne University, Inserm and the Pasteur Institute have carried out work to study the role played by IgA-type antibodies in protecting the body against Covid-19 in the mucous membranes, particularly the respiratory tract.