University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

Currently, IPV is relatively expensive to produce because it requires high levels of bio-containment to minimise the risk of leaks of live poliovirus, which could result in outbreaks. VLPs are ...

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

Researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine using virus-like ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the findings show that VLPs produced in both yeast and insect cells can perform equally or better than the current inactivated polio vaccine (IPV ...

Scientists have developed a vaccine using virus-like particles (VLPs), which mimic the poliovirus but do not contain any ...

Since being discovered in the 1950s, experiments on HeLa cells have played a role in developing advances like the polio and COVID-19 vaccines, treatments for cancer, HIV, AIDS, and much more.

Scientists Harness Bile-Converting Bacteria to Heal Damaged ColonsThe human gut is home to trillions of bacteria that play ...

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his ...