culture, vaccine

As the world around us seems increasingly volatile, protecting and respecting the integrity of research and evidence becomes more important than ever.

Take a break from the bench to puzzle and peruse.

Just three days after five people involved in the polio vaccine effort in Pakistan were shot by unidentified assailants, three more are killed.

The Nobel Assembly announced today that three researchers in the field of immunology will share the 2011 Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

A veterinary vaccine spawned products that could clean the HIV virus from blood supplies.

The story of the US government’s efforts to stamp out smallpox in the early 20th century offers insights into the science and practice of mass vaccination.

In Chapter 5, "The Stable and the Laboratory," author Michael Willrich explores the burgeoning vaccine manufacture industry that ramped up to combat smallpox epidemics in turn-of-the-twentieth-century American cities.

The path to eradicating malaria in Africa involves much more than just a vaccine.