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High immunity levels a challenge for Covid trials
Researchers deliberately infected participants with SARS-CoV-2 in ‘challenge’ trials – but high levels of immunity complicated efforts to test vaccines and treatments, frustrating the...
Maternal RSV jab trial halted over preterm birth risks
A phase 3 trial of a maternal vaccine candidate for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been stopped early because the risk for preterm births...
How 100-year-old TB vaccine can be new Alzheimer's weapon
Recent studies have suggested that the BCG jab – the tuberculosis vaccine that has saved millions of lives since discovery a century ago – could...
Conflict over Pfizer RSV vaccine trial informed consent
Pfizer is under fire by some experts, including in South Africa, for not informing pregnant women in its trial of maternal respiratory syncytial virus...
Africa must rise to reap benefits of vaccine research – virologist
Top virologist Oyewale Tomori says Africa should prepare to take advantage of the several important breakthroughs in medical science recently, among them, Crispr, mRNA,...
Covid vaccine immunity drops after a month, analysis finds
Whether you get it from a vaccine or an infection, Covid-19 immunity does not last forever, say researchers who, after examining 40 studies, found...
One HPV jab effective for three years, gold-standard Kenya trial finds
A single dose of the human papillomavirus vaccine is effective at preventing infections over three years, most likely lowering rates of cervical cancer and...
American Chemical Society overview of potential therapeutic agents and vaccines for COVID-19
Since the first reports of a new coronavirus disease in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the globe, threatening a...
First analysis of potential targets for immune response — J Craig Venter and La Jolla institutes
A team of researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, in collaboration with researchers at the J Craig Venter Institute, provides the first analysis...
Coronavirus infected monkeys that recovered developed effective immunity
Tests on monkeys suggest that patients who appear to have been "re-infected" may have been presenting symptoms from the same infection, reports The Daily...