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Vaccine mistrust threatens COVID immunity

Fewer than three quarters of people around the world say they are likely to use a vaccination against COVID-19 if one is approved by regulatory agencies, falling short of the levels required to achieve collective...

4 November, 2020

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Targeting the shell of the Ebola virus for a knock-out with antivirals

How can we battle these infectious agents such as Ebola virus disease (EVD) that reproduce by hijacking cells and reprogramming them into virus-replicating machines? A research team led by Professor Juan Perilla at the...

27 October, 2020

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Cells sacrifice themselves to boost immune response to viruses

Whether flu or coronavirus, it can take several days for the body to ramp up an effective response to a viral infection. New research appearing in the journal Nature Immunology describes how different cells in the...

2 October, 2020

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Covid-19 will be just ‘one of many’ new infectious diseases spilling over from animals to humans

Three-quarters of emerging illnesses come from animals and a new report identifies climate change as a primary driver of many of them. As the new coronavirus continues to turn the world upside down, crashing economies...

27 August, 2020

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COVID-19 vaccine innovation could dramatically speed up worldwide production

Responding to a need to quickly develop billions of doses of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, a scientific team at The University of Texas at Austin has successfully redesigned a key protein from the coronavirus, and the...

4 August, 2020

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Phase 3 clinical trial of investigational vaccine for COVID-19 begins

A Phase 3 clinical trial designed to evaluate if an investigational vaccine can prevent symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adults has begun. The vaccine, known as mRNA-1273, was co-developed by the...

28 July, 2020

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NTU Singapore researchers speed up gold-standard COVID-19 diagnostic test

Clinician-scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore’s (NTU Singapore) Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) have demonstrated a way to improve the speed, handling time and cost of COVID-19...

28 July, 2020

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Malaria breakthrough set to change vaccine design

Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered a vital clue as to why malaria vaccines keep failing, which could potentially change how vaccines for the deadly disease and others are made...

24 July, 2020

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Scientists race to develop an effective COVID-19 vaccine

With the global pandemic still in full swing, scientists are working to develop a vaccine in record time. While everyone wants an effective vaccine, they don’t all agree on how to get there and what...

23 July, 2020

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‘It’s not a new virus’: WHO expert after study warns of new H1N1 strain in China with pandemic potential

A World Health Organisation (WHO) expert has sought to calm fears following the disclosure that a new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus, which has pandemic potential, was spreading fast among workers on Chinese pig...

16 July, 2020

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