Medical research

New generation of COVID vaccine shows promising results

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet are developing a coronavirus vaccine designed to be less sensitive to mutations and equipped for future strains. The vaccine showed promising results in mice in a newly published study ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

DNA vaccine protects against toxic proteins linked to Alzheimer's

A new DNA vaccine when delivered to the skin prompts an immune response that produces antibodies to protect against toxic proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease - without triggering severe brain swelling that earlier ...

Medical research

Priming with DNA vaccine makes avian flu vaccine work better

The immune response to an H5N1 avian influenza vaccine was greatly enhanced in healthy adults if they were first primed with a DNA vaccine expressing a gene for a key H5N1 protein, researchers say. Their report describes ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

DNA vaccines for COVID-19 effective in mice, hamsters

Currently available COVID-19 vaccines rely on mRNA strands to teach the human immune system to recognize the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have reported the successful development ...

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