The federal government estimates that there are more than one million people living with HIV to date in the U.S. Among these people, one in every seven may not know that they are infected. Researchers from Scripps...
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced a plan to carry out an HIV vaccine efficacy trial in North America, South America and Europe. This...
Researchers often spend billions of dollars and countless hours developing new drugs, only for the vast majority to fail long before they reach human trials. In recent years, some of those developers have started...
Efforts to develop an effective vaccine for genital herpes, a common sexually transmitted disease, have largely failed. In a new study published in Nature, Yale researchers explore why, and their findings could lead to...
Scientists from the University of Adelaide’s Research Centre for Infectious Diseases have developed a single vaccination approach to simultaneously combat influenza and pneumococcal infections, the world’s...
The search for a global Strep A vaccine has narrowed after researchers sequenced the DNA of more than 2000 Group A Streptococcus samples from around the world. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the...
Researchers at the University of Leeds are developing a cheaper and safer way of making the polio vaccine. The pioneering work is featured in the latest MadeAtUni campaign, a celebration of the pioneering research...
Researchers create detailed image of virus bound to protein found on cells in joints Chikungunya virus, once confined to the Eastern Hemisphere, has infected more than 1 million people in the Americas since 2013, when...
An orally administered vaccine can protect millions from hepatitis B: oral vaccines are both safer and less expensive than injections; researchers are continuously pursuing ways to produce an oral vaccine that is...
Nipah virus is a type of RNA virus transmitted from animals to humans. The infection causes severe respiratory illness and symptoms including cough, headache, and fever, which can progress into encephalitis, seizure...