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“01:17:51 - What gene therapy costs and how scaling this technology may make it affordable for everyone. 01:19:39 - How mRNA vaccine technology may be applied to counter immunosenescence – the exhaustion of the aging immune system.”

“Sex hormones mediate the body's immune response. For example, women mount stronger immune responses to vaccinations than men, possibly because estrogen enhances humoral immunity while testosterone is a suppressor.”

“Biotechnology may have a special potential to create change across generations, as it has done with the global eradication of smallpox – a vaccine that ceased mainstream use in the 1970s. Synthetic biology, with its potential to eradicate viral illnesses, could usher in an era of global progress.”

“Practical steps include avoiding tobacco, minimizing alcohol, maintaining a healthy weight, eating varied plant foods, exercising, using recommended vaccines and sun protection, knowing family history, and following age- and risk-based screening guidance.”

“00:17:18 - Antibody-dependent enhancement is when the immune system creates antibodies that can cause a more severe reinfection instead of protection. 1 00:18:50 - In 1967 the RSV vaccine caused an antibody-dependent enhancement in toddlers and caused worse respiratory disease and death.”

“Healthy, well-nourished adults can usually synthesize enough, and athlete trials have not found consistent improvements in immune measures, aerobic performance, body composition, or intestinal permeability from routine supplementation.”

“The available randomized trials support tolerability for up to four months in selected adults, not indefinite use. A small 28-day trial also found changes in immune-cell composition and metabolism, but it did not test infections, vaccine responses, or clinical immune rejuvenation.”

“The research, which used mice, showed that vaccinating the mother resulted in vaccination of the baby through this process of transferring maternal immune cells which then guide the infant's immune cells to attack the same infectious organisms to which the mother has been exposed.”

Although at least one clinical trial of an investigational vaccine is currently underway (https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-clinical-trial-investigational-vaccine-covid-19-begins), the release of such a vaccine could take months or even years.

“Current vaccines against COVID-19 provide powerful protection against the disease.”