Infectious diseases remain a significant global socioeconomic and public-health problem, having a great impact on the development of many nations. According to data reported by the WHO, infectious ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv pre-print* server, a team of researchers developed a broadly reactive and stable severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 spike protein subunit 2 ...

Subunit vaccines use a small part of a pathogen to train our immune system to fight off future infection. They cannot cause disease but may need the addition of other chemicals for the vaccine to ...

Find out how different vaccines for the coronavirus cause your body to create antibodies that fight the virus.

Live attenuated vaccines mimic natural infections, providing strong immunity but require refrigeration and caution for immunocompromised individuals. Subunit vaccines offer targeted immunity without ...

Historically, vaccines were developed using live attenuated organisms, inactivated toxins, or killed whole organisms. Live attenuated vaccines (e.g., polio, varicella, and measles) induced both ...

On Aug. 22, the Food and Drug Administration approved and authorized newer formulations of the two mRNA vaccines, from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, for ages 6 months and up. About a week later, the ...