Doctors have begun trialling in hundreds of patients the world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its “gamechanging” potential to permanently…
View More ‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialledTag: Vaccines and immunisation
Covid vaccines cut risk of virus-related heart failure and blood clots, study finds
Covid vaccinations substantially reduce the risk of heart failure and potentially dangerous blood clots linked to the infection for up to a year, according to…
View More Covid vaccines cut risk of virus-related heart failure and blood clots, study findsIs the 100-year old TB vaccine a new weapon against Alzheimer’s?
Scientific discoveries can emerge from the strangest places. In early 1900s France, the doctor Albert Calmette and the veterinarian Camille Guérin aimed to discover how…
View More Is the 100-year old TB vaccine a new weapon against Alzheimer’s?Scientists whose work enabled mRNA Covid vaccine win medicine Nobel prize
Two scientists have been awarded the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for their contributions to RNA biology that contributed to the unprecedented rate…
View More Scientists whose work enabled mRNA Covid vaccine win medicine Nobel prize‘A silver lining’: how Covid ushered in a vaccines golden era
The Covid-19 pandemic has been awful for many reasons. But if there is a bright side to the past three years, it is vaccines. Development…
View More ‘A silver lining’: how Covid ushered in a vaccines golden eraUS moves to simplify Covid vaccines into yearly dose to target variants
The US is poised to make Covid-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite a long list of questions…
View More US moves to simplify Covid vaccines into yearly dose to target variantsImmunity debt: does it really exist?
The deaths of at least 74 people, including 19 children, from the invasive bacterial infection group A streptococcus, or strep A, are the most extreme…
View More Immunity debt: does it really exist?Cancer vaccine trials could start in England by autumn
Trials of personalised cancer vaccines in England are to be speeded up after a government deal with a firm behind one of the major Covid…
View More Cancer vaccine trials could start in England by autumnUniversal flu vaccine may be available within two years, says scientist
A universal flu vaccine that protects against all strains of the virus could be available in the next two years, according to a leading scientist.…
View More Universal flu vaccine may be available within two years, says scientistScientists hope nasal vaccines will help halt Covid transmission
People who receive a Covid booster dose in the UK next month will be among the first in the world to receive Moderna’s dual-variant vaccine,…
View More Scientists hope nasal vaccines will help halt Covid transmission