MedicalXpress.com – Vaccines

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa is safe and effective […]

University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine using virus-like particles (VLPs). These particles mimic the outer protein shell of poliovirus, but are empty inside. […]

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his co-researcher, Jonas Salk (who would later garner worldwide fame as developer of the first polio […]

Researchers at Vaxart Inc. and the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland School of Medicine evaluated the safety and immunogenicity of an oral norovirus vaccine tablet, VXA-G1.1-NN. Results indicate that the vaccine […]

Researchers have discovered how antibodies help to protect against contagious bacterial infections caused by Strep A, including strep throat. And the findings are already contributing to efforts to accelerate the development of a Strep A […]

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institutes of Health, have discovered a strategy to fight back against […]

A live-attenuated tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate in development at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) elicits a much more balanced and effective immune response compared to the existing vaccine used across much of the world, […]

Cornell researchers have developed a new vaccine platform that could provide more robust, longer-lasting protection from both COVID-19 and influenza, and broader immunity to different flu strains.This post was originally published on this site

The malaria parasite is still killing almost half a million people every year. A project has now identified a gene that holds out the prospect of a safe, effective live vaccine. The study is published […]

The varicella zoster virus (VZV), an infectious virus from the herpes virus family, is primarily known to cause varicella in children and shingles in adults. But lately, this virus has also been reported to trigger […]