It’s a scary struggle. Forget guns, bullets, bombs and drones. Humans are entangled in a far more lethal world war than the conflicts often described in the news. The numbers and potential kill factors are...
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, who spends millions of dollars on AIDS drug development, hopes for a vaccine against the disease within the next five to 10 years, even as a cure is still elusive. A vaccine can...
Researchers have started planning for the first clinical trial to test a candidate vaccine to protect against the coronavirus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome. The news follows a study led by Ludwig...
A new study led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) shows that an HIV-1 vaccine regimen, involving a viral vector boosted with a purified envelope protein, provided complete protection in half...
Researchers from The Scripps Research Institution (TSRI), Harvard, MIT and other institutions made ground-breaking discoveries that has led to a HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) vaccine that could be tested in humans...
The new 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine, can potentially prevent 80 percent of cervical cancers in the United States, if given to all 11- or 12-year-old children before they are exposed to the virus. In addition...
The effectiveness of the measles vaccine has been well established, but now researchers have discovered that the vaccine may offer protective effects far beyond what we thought. Measles of course is well known as a...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a branch of the National Institutes of Health, recently announced that an Ebola vaccine study has made a milestone achievement by enrolling 1,500...
Killing two bird flus with one stone. With a mysterious bird flu epidemic killing millions of chickens across the American Midwest, and a deadly human pandemic only a handful of viral mutations away, any new addition to...
Toxins produced by a certain bacterium may be the reason behind Type-2 diabetes, say researchers who found symptoms of the disease in rabbits when exposure to the toxins for too long. The research could help in...