The present disclosure provides a method of dispersing agglomerated material in a preparation comprising influenza proteins. The method comprises subjecting the preparation to sonication.

The present invention relates to the preparation of the compound immunopotentiator and the application thereof in a foot-and-mouth disease vaccine of pigs. According to the present invention, the foot-and-mouth disease vaccine of pigs is taken as a research subject, and on this basis, several immunopotentiators having obvious immunopotentiating effects are selected for the compound immunopotentiator, and an antigen/vaccine is mixed with the immunopotentiator to prepare a vaccine-immunized pig. An animal experiment result shows that the present invention has obvious immunopotentiating effects. After immunizing the vaccine containing the compound immunopotentiator, a window period for antibody production can be significantly shortened to 7 days; a LPB-ELISA antibody titer is significantly improved, and an antibody pass rate is significantly increased; an immune protection period is also significantly extended, at least up to 7 months.

Disclosed herein are immunogenic compositions and vaccination regimes for immunizing humans against influenza disease.

The present invention provides a modified influenza A virus (IAV) comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of at least one artificial gene segment comprising a duplicated packaging signal, the result of which is a modified IAV that is replication competent and avirulent, and when co-infected with a wild type virus leads to segment exchange and compromises the spread of both viruses as well as methods of making and using same and methods of using the IAVs in the treatment and prevention of influenza-related diseases.

The present invention relates to immunogenic compositions comprising RSV F protein, methods for preparing compositions that contain RSV F protein ecto-domain polypeptides, and to certain engineered RSV F proteins and nucleic acids that encode the engineered RSV F proteins. Compositions prepared using the methods can contain RSV F protein ecto-domain polypeptides in a predominant or single desired form and conformation. The invention also relates to methods for inducing an immune response to RSV F.

A method for producing at least one microneedle containing a vaccine for transdermal delivery of the vaccine to a patient includes preparing microparticles or nanoparticles of encapsulated vaccine by preparing a solution comprising a vaccine antigen and a biocompatible polymer matrix; and spray drying the solution to form the microparticles or nanoparticles. The method includes the further steps of preparing a film composition including at least one pre-polymer solution; preparing a suspension comprising the microparticles or nanoparticles and the film composition; loading the suspension into a 3D printer; printing, via the 3D printer, at least one microneedle made from the suspension; and, converting the pre-polymer solution into a cross-linked biopolymer by exposing the at least one microneedle to UV light. Also disclosed are microneedles containing a vaccine for transdermal delivery.

The present invention includes a vaccine comprising a SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (S) or portion thereof, and methods of use thereof.

The disclosure relates to defective interfering genes and viruses thereof. It has been discovered that defective interfering genes designed from influenza and coronavirus species can inhibit infection or replication of the parent virus. In vivo, DIGs induce rapid-onset prophylactic protection of infected animals against lethal viral doses. Thus, disclosed herein are nucleic acids containing DIGs, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and associated methods of use. For example, described herein is an isolated polynucleotide containing one or more defective interfering genes, wherein each of the one or more defective interfering genes contains a nucleotide sequence corresponding to one or more portions of an influenza or coronavirus gene or genome, wherein the nucleotide sequence includes a deletion in the gene. The DIGs can be in the form of a plasmid. Pharmaceutical compositions of the plasmid can be used to limit viral replication and prevent or treat influenza or coronavirus associated diseases.

The present invention relates to immunogenic compositions comprising RSV F protein, methods for preparing compositions that contain RSV F protein ecto-domain polypeptides, and to certain engineered RSV F proteins and nucleic acids that encode the engineered RSV F proteins. Compositions prepared using the methods can contain RSV F protein ecto-domain polypeptides in a predominant or single desired form and conformation. The invention also relates to methods for inducing an immune response to RSV F.

The present invention relates to vaccine products for the treatment or prevention of viral infections. Further provided are methods of reducing contaminants associated with the preparation of cell culture vaccines. Residual functional cell culture DNA is degraded by treatment with a DNA alkylating agent, such as β-propiolactone (BPL), thereby providing a vaccine comprising immunogenic proteins derived from a virus propagated on cell culture, substantially free of residual functional cell culture DNA.