Vaccinations used to seem simple. Your doctor would tell you which to get, and you’d roll up your sleeve at the office or a nearby pharmacy. Now we’re seeing changing recommendations, and some people ...

Scientists have developed what they describe as the world's first AI-designed vaccine. So, how does it work? And what does it ...

Vaccines boost the immune system's ability to fight off diseases. Vaccines undergo rigorous testing to ensure safety and effectiveness. Widespread vaccination contributes to herd immunity, protecting ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to terminate $500 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development threatens to unravel one of medicine’s greatest recent ...

West Coast states are teaming up to issue their own vaccine guidelines in the face of rapid changes at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. The federal ...

More and more routine vaccines are being linked to lower risks of dementia. Shots against seasonal flu, RSV, tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap), pneumococcal infections, hepatitis A and B, and ...

For most of modern vaccine history, scientists have had to wait for that door to open until they could design a vaccine ...

Sievers is a vaccine researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and the NIH Vaccine Research Center. I’m a vaccine researcher. And I’m terrified of needles. It’s not something I’m ...

Individualized vaccines are built from resected tumor, using analytics to prioritize neoantigens most likely to be immunogenic, then encoding these targets into an mRNA construct tailored to each ...

Vaccine safety monitoring in the US is a multilayered process that combines passive and active functions, as well as expert analyses of specific safety questions. Side effects are passively reported ...

The goal is ambitious: a single vaccine that works not just against all known human coronavirus variants, but against related ...