Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Vaccinia virus (VACV) confers cross-protective immunity against the variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, and has therefore been ...

Instead of teaching the immune system to create antibodies to fight off a specific virus, the new vaccine would instead teach the body to create small signaling RNA proteins that will shut down ...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University are working on advancing that goal by developing a new way to deliver vaccines against flu viruses. The vaccines are delivered through a harmless virus ...

What if CAR T cells, revolutionary cancer fighters normally manufactured in the lab, could be created inside the patient? This quest to simplify CAR T therapy has brought two biotech companies to a ...

Gene therapy involves the introduction of foreign genomic materials into host cells to trigger clinical benefits. 1 Over the years, scientists have developed numerous viral and non-viral vectors to ...

For the past few years, SARS-CoV-2 and mRNA-based vaccines have dominated the scientific and clinical work on infectious diseases, but other diseases and vaccine approaches are attracting attention.