Design of SARS-CoV-2 hFc-Conjugated Receptor-Binding Domain mRNA Vaccine Delivered via Lipid Nanoparticles

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  1. SciScore for 10.1101/2020.10.15.341537: (What is this?)

    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIACUC: All animal experiments were conducted in accordance with the guideline of the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) animal experiments committee.
    RandomizationAnimals: Female BALB/c mice (6–8 weeks old) were obtained from Charles River and randomly assigned into cages in groups of 10 animals.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variableAnimals: Female BALB/c mice (6–8 weeks old) were obtained from Charles River and randomly assigned into cages in groups of 10 animals.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    For plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT), Vero E6 cells (0.5*106 cells/well in 12-well plates) were cultured in DMEM supplemented with 10% FCS, MEM non-essential amino acids, 2nM L-Glutamine, 100 Units/ml Penicillin, 0.1 mg/ml streptomycin and 12.5 Units/ml Nystatin (Biological Industries, Israel) overnight at 37°C, 5% CO2.
    Vero E6
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)
    Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains
    SentencesResources
    Animals: Female BALB/c mice (6–8 weeks old) were obtained from Charles River and randomly assigned into cages in groups of 10 animals.
    BALB/c
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    The purified protein was sterile-filtered and stored in PBS. mRNA: CleanCap® firefly luciferase mRNA was a kind gift from BioNtech RNA Pharmaceuticals (Mainz, Germany).
    BioNtech
    suggested: None
    All statistical analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism 8 statistical software.
    GraphPad Prism
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).


    Results from JetFighter: Please consider improving the rainbow (“jet”) colormap(s) used on page 8. At least one figure is not accessible to readers with colorblindness and/or is not true to the data, i.e. not perceptually uniform.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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