How an experimental preparation technique could make vaccines easier to transport, store, and administer

A novel preparation technique could facilitate vaccine preservation, transportation, and administration.

Engineered Plasmodium parasites form the basis of two experimental malaria vaccines that showed safety and encouraging immune responses in clinical trials.

A clinical trial of the shot in eight volunteers suggests that it is safe and that it generates antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2, but further testing is needed, scientists say.

We present an economic plan for a collective sharing of scientific knowledge on the pandemic.

The study, conducted in Malawi, Kenya, and Ghana, did not obtain informed consent from each parent whose child participated, but rather considered consent “implied” because of the particular experimental design.

The public health emergency has spurred a mass vaccination campaign.

In rare instances, the live virus in oral polio vaccines can mutate and become infectious, causing new outbreaks.

Merck’s Ervebo gets its first regulatory greenlight. A decision from the US Food and Drug Administration is expected in the next few months.