US Starts Clinical Trial for mRNA Nipah Virus Vaccine
The experimental Nipah virus vaccine (mRNA-1215) is manufactured by Moderna, Inc. and was developed in collaboration with NIAID’s Vaccine Research ...
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Targeting Poxviruses with Messenger RNA Technology
Scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) working with industry partners are among the first ...
Novavax Missed Its Global Moonshot but Is Angling to Win Over mRNA Defectors
Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the ...
New NIH Study Will Follow Patients That Had Allergic Reaction to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are conducting a clinical trial designed to help understand ...
Israel is Rolling Out Fourth Doses of COVID Vaccines to Everyone. Should Others Follow?
Earlier this year, Israel began offering a fourth dose of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine to people who are immunocompromised, older ...
Three Doses of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Effective Against Hospitalizations for Omicron and Delta
A nationwide study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that mRNA booster shots (either Pfizer ...
How Effective Are Vaccines Against Omicron?
The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine ...
Does AstraZeneca’s COVID Vaccine Give Longer-Lasting Protection Than mRNA Shots?
Last week, AstraZeneca’s chief executive officer said the company’s COVID vaccine may provide longer-lasting protection than mRNA vaccines like Pfizer’s, ...
How Well Do Covid Vaccines Hold Up Over Time? Macaque Study Shows Decline in Lung Protection
The findings point to the need for mRNA-1273 booster vaccination to sustain high-level and rapid protection in the lung and ...
Why Moderna Won’t Share Rights to the COVID-19 Vaccine with the Government That Paid for Its Development
A quiet monthslong legal fight between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and drugmaker Moderna over COVID-19 vaccine patents recently ...
Vaccination Offers Higher Protection Than Previous COVID-19 Infection
In this multistate analysis of hospitalizations for COVID-19–like illness among adults aged 18 years or older during January–September 2021 whose ...
Rwanda and Senegal Will Host Africa’s First COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Plants
The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the ...
Navigating New Federal Rules on ‘Mix-and-Match’ Vaccine Booster Shots
Many Americans now have the green light to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster – and the flexibility to receive a ...
Data Shows Continued Vulnerability of Vaccinated Blood Cancer Patients to COVID-19
Vulnerable groups not mounting sufficient immune responses to vaccination (such as blood cancer patients) urgently require the public to continue ...
How a BBQ Lighter Sparked a Breakthrough Idea on Vaccine Delivery
Inspiration for an innovative vaccine delivery method came from an everyday device that people use to start a grill: the ...
Erica Ollmann Saphire Receives $2.6M Grant to Collaborate on Pan-Coronavirus Vaccine
La Jolla Institute scientists team up with Brigham and Women's Hospital to guide the development of vaccines against the coronavirus ...
Moderna COVID Booster Study in Rhesus Macaques Shows Increased Antibody Response
NIH researchers evaluated the immune responses in nonhuman primates that received a primary vaccination series of mRNA-1273 (Moderna) and were ...
No, COVID Vaccines Don’t Stay in Your Body for Years
As countries strive to reach national COVID vaccination targets, there’s unprecedented focus on the biological effects of vaccines. While there’s ...
New J&J Data Shows Second COVID Shot Boosts Antibodies and Protection – But Single Dose Still Strong Against Delta Variant
On Sept 22, 2021, Johnson & Johnson released data that answers two questions many people have likely been wondering about ...
Messenger RNA: How it Works in Nature and in Making Vaccines
Vaccines have long been an integral part of public health programs around the world, reducing the spread and severity of ...
