Vaccines
| June 1, 2011
Looking back, looking ahead
Successful vaccines have been created to protect against pathogenic bacteria and viruses. Why aren’t there any for combating fungal infections?
It may be time to reconsider an AIDS vaccine which is more human than viral, triggering the immune system in a way that no other vaccine does.
A new breed of vaccines aims to wean users off cocaine.
Decades of vaccine research have expanded our understanding of the immune system and are yielding novel disease-fighting tactics.
This past Monday, the Endeavor space shuttle was launched into space carrying six astronauts, brand new equipment for studying the universe and... a bobtail squid and a pack of extremophile bacteria. According to Wired, the unlikely science expe
In discovering their shared ancestry, a distantly related animal geneticist and plant pathologist find a common thread in their work on immune receptors.