On May 20, 2025, the World Health Assembly adopted the first-ever WHO Pandemic Agreement, a decision that many are hailing as a milestone for global health diplomacy. Framed as a response to the failures laid bare by...
In its press release, BioNTech confirmed it will invest up to £1 billion (about €1.2 billion) over the next ten years to expand its research and development activities for innovative medicines in the United Kingdom. The...
In a breakthrough that could transform global immunization strategies, engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed biodegradable microparticles capable of delivering multiple vaccine...
A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford has shed light on how COVID-19 vaccines reduce the severity of illness, even when vaccinated people do get infected. The findings help explain why vaccinated...
In a major milestone for biomedical science, researchers led by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have unveiled one of the world’s largest and most...
When a blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) bites into human skin, it does more than simply take a blood meal. Through its saliva, the tick injects a complex cocktail of proteins designed to suppress the host’s immune...
A groundbreaking study led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reveals that unvaccinated children and adolescents were up to 20 times more likely to develop long COVID than their...
More than three years of intense negotiations, marked by missed deadlines, high stakes disagreements, and political walkouts, have finally led to a historic agreement between 194 World Health Organization (WHO) member...