MedicalXpress.com – Vaccines

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 […]