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Zika vaccine shows promising results in preclinical studies

A Zika virus vaccine candidate is effective at preventing the Zika virus passing from mother to fetus in preclinical animal studies, according to a new study in the journal npj Vaccines. The research is a collaboration...

30 January, 2022

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Malaria, known to humans for millennia, finally has a vaccine

About a year passed between COVID-19’s discovery and the creation of a vaccine. Why was malaria so much harder? The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended a broad rollout for a malaria vaccine after a pilot...

4 December, 2021

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Antibody breakthrough in mice could lead to a vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, impacting roughly 44 million people worldwide. In some nations, those numbers could triple in the next fifty years, and scientists are desperately...

18 November, 2021

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Meningococcal vaccination rates low among patients with complement component deficiencies

Meningococcal vaccination rates are low among eligible patients with complement component deficiencies, according to a study of U.S. data. Researchers used a nationwide database to assess uptake of vaccines against...

15 November, 2021

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COVID-19 vaccine success can enable universal healthcare – here’s how

For more than 200 years, human beings managed to avert widespread pestilence with vaccines. While not a silver bullet, vaccines provide us with the freedom to engage with the world without the fear of debilitating...

4 May, 2021

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HIV vaccine candidate’s mechanism revealed 20 years later

About two decades after first devising a new kind of vaccine, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) researchers are unlocking why it stops and ultimately clears the monkey form of HIV, called SIV, in about half...

26 April, 2021

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New variant COVID findings fuel more worries about vaccine resistance

Scientists in the United Kingdom reported that a small number of B117 variants have developed the E484K mutation thought to help SARS-CoV-2 partly evade immunity, and another UK group said their lab experiments suggest...

3 February, 2021

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WHO, marking year since COVID-19 began, urges fair vaccine distribution to all

The head of the World Health Organization, marking a year since the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by China, urged countries on Wednesday to ensure that vaccines are made available to people at risk...

31 December, 2020

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Why mRNA vaccines won’t change your genetic material

Of all the Covid-19 vaccine candidates making their way through the regulatory pipeline, the two from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are some of the most exciting. In addition to having reported efficacies of 90% of more...

11 December, 2020

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What have vaccines done for us?

As the world awaits the imminent arrival of one — or several — COVID-19 vaccines, many people may wonder how important vaccines actually are to safeguarding public health. In this feature, we answer that question by...

2 December, 2020

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