Medical research

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 infectious diseases. The success of immunization strategies to protect children from diseases like polio, ...

Vaccination

Unwilling to wait, poorer countries seek their own vaccines

With coronavirus cases still climbing, Honduras got tired of waiting to get vaccines through a United Nations program, so the small Central American country struck out on its own, securing the shots through a private deal.

HIV & AIDS

Research may be beating HIV, but a vaccine remains distant

Three decades since the onset of the infection in a global population, HIV care and treatment is looking very different. Given the difficulties involved, it is remarkable that having developed good treatments, the global ...

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