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Duke Health leads its first clinical trial testing a new universal flu vaccine

Duke Health is leading its first clinical trial under a large federal initiative to develop a new-generation flu vaccine. The phase 1 clinical trial, which launched last month, is testing the safety of a vaccine...

27 May, 2023

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Deadly virus structures point toward new avenues for vaccine design

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people in West Africa become infected with Lassa virus, which can cause Lassa fever and lead to severe illness, long-term side effects or death. There are currently no widely...

27 May, 2023

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Needle-free vaccines could be available within five years, but investment is needed

Researchers have called for pilot manufacturing facilities to be constructed ‘at-risk’, to ensure this game-changing technology is ready for deployment before the next pandemic. Needle-free vaccines could transform...

23 May, 2023

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WHO launches Global Infectious Disease Surveillance Network

The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN), a public health network to prevent and detect infectious disease threats before they become epidemics or pandemics...

23 May, 2023

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African scientists are working to pool data that decodes diseases – a giant step

Infectious disease outbreaks in African countries are, unfortunately, all too common. Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Uganda; Marburg virus in Guinea or Equatorial Guinea; cholera in Malawi; malaria and...

19 May, 2023

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MIT research team develops microneedle patch “printer” for vaccine delivery

In a research article published in Nature Biotechnology, a team from the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT details their journey in devising an exciting new methodology for delivering vaccines such...

10 May, 2023

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Two very different microbes immune to the same viruses?

In a study published in Nature Microbiology, Harvard researchers found evidence that viruses infecting microbes in the deep sea interact with a far more diverse set of hosts than previously thought. The findings could...

10 May, 2023

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Yale study reveals insights into post-vaccine heart inflammation cases

When new COVID-19 vaccines were first administered two years ago, public health officials found an increase in cases of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, particularly among young males who had been...

9 May, 2023

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Research illuminates ‘programmed cell death’ process induced by a common toxin

ASU professor and team find that arsenite induces cell death and could lead to over inflammation Cells are the building blocks of our body and many other organisms. But did you know that sometimes cells need to die...

3 May, 2023

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UIC researchers, from left to right, Drs. Hemant Borase, Tejabhiram Yadavalli, Chandrashekhar Patil and Deepak Shukla, in their lab. Credit: Deepak Shukla

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Herpes study adds to understanding of viral reinfections, how to potentially prevent them

In the early days of the pandemic, there was hope that being infected once with the coronavirus would grant immunity against future infections. As we all know by now, that is not how things played out. Yet, there is not...

2 May, 2023

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