What is a #VLP #Vaccine?

📌 VLP stands for virus-like particles. Virus-like particles are molecules that mimic viruses but are not infectious. They are a very effective way of creating vaccines against diseases such as human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B, malaria, and more.

https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-a-VLP-Vaccine.aspx#:~:text=VLP%20stands%20for%20virus%2Dlike,B%2C%20malaria%2C%20and%20more.

Did you miss this great talk from
@breadascientist? Check it out on Youtube: https://youtu.be/hIQUIlenzxY
#scicomm #openscience #STEM #aptamer #chemistry #chemtwitter #biochemistry #science #education #VLP

Respiratory Viruses and Virus-like Particle #Vaccine Development: How Far Have We Advanced?

📌 a #VLP(Virus-like particle) is a viral structure that intentionally lacks a viral genome and therefore is not infectious , but elicits the immune response

📌 VLP-based vaccines against hepatitis B and human papillomavirus have been approved for clinical use

https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/viruses/viruses-15-00392/article_deploy/viruses-15-00392.pdf?version=1675071886

Went back to BLIP (https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12086) last night. When I first skimmed it, I focused on the part of the paper focused on bootstrapping captions, but the "Multimodal mixture of Encoder-Decoder" architecture is pretty cool.

It uses a structured architecture involving multiple encoder/decoders wherein some parts of the architecture take advantage of others (e.g. using the contrastive loss for hard example mining for the image-text matching loss).

#ilp #vlp #multimodal

As a (re)#introduction (#hashtags): I am a senior ML researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge (UK, aka "Original Cambridge") and part of Health Futures.

I work in ML for #health, in particular on #EHR data (especially #ICU time series), and these days am thinking about #biomedical vision-language processing (#vlp) in #radiology.