Rita E. Chen

Apr 26, 2024 | ritalalalala.medium.com | Rita E. Chen

Since the end of 2023, many airdrop projects have begun to use a points system to distribute airdrops. (eg. Blast) However, for us practitioners, as points are handled off-chain and allocation is often undisclosed, it’s unclear to estimate how many tokens will be received and their worth until the end of the airdrop campaign. Participating in airdrops is a time-consuming process. If shortchanged, all the time and capital invested in the previous few months will be wasted, leading to losses.

Nov 30, 2023 | cell.com | Lucas Adams |Laura A. VanBlargan |Rita E. Chen |Bradley Whitener

Highlights•NTD mAbs block SARS-CoV-2 infection at a post-attachment step•SARS2-57 mAb recognizes most variants and confers Fc-mediated protection in mice•Cryo-EM reveals SARS2-57 binds loops N3 and N5 of the NTD supersite•Cryo-EM reveals the basis of SARS2-57 variant recognition and immune evasionSummaryMost neutralizing anti-SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) target the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the spike (S) protein.