"The idea is that if a new coronavirus emerges, we might not be able to protect from the infection, but we might be able to protect from hospitalization." ...

The threat posed by any infectious disease depends not only on how it affects the body, but also on how easily it spreads ...

The R0 measure indicates how an infection will spread in a population. If it's greater than one (as seen above), the outcome ...

When the COVID pandemic hit, many people turned to the eerily prescient film "Contagion" (2011) for answers—or at least for ...

Most vaccines are designed to provide immunity against just one pathogen. Vaccines for chicken pox (caused by ...

Scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology have created a vaccine design pipeline to target conserved T cell epitopes across viral families. The approach could lead to universal vaccines ...