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Reflections on a year of fighting COVID-19

11 Dec 2020

2020 will be forever remembered for COVID-19. As the year draws to a close, Dr Estée Török looks back at how colleagues across the NHS and the...

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COVID-19: What to expect from a vaccine

11 Sep 2020

Vaccine expert Professor Gordon Dougan looks at the challenges of developing and delivering a vaccine against COVID-19.

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Coronavirus

Cambridge-developed SARS-CoV-2 vaccine receives £1.9million from UK government for clinical trial

26 Aug 2020

A Cambridge-developed vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 could begin clinical trials in the UK in late autumn or early next year, thanks to a £1...

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Ebola and Lassa fever targeted by new vaccine trial and improved surveillance

25 Sep 2018

Scientists hope that a new approach to vaccine development, combined with improved surveillance of potential future threats of outbreak, could help...

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3D print of HIV (edited)

Study clears important hurdle towards developing an HIV vaccine

13 Sep 2017

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a way of overcoming one of the major stumbling blocks that has prevented the development of a...

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Call to arms: how lessons from history could reduce the ‘immunisation gap’

25 Apr 2016

A rise in the number of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases has highlighted the growing trend for parents not to have their child vaccinated...

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Cows in a field

Minimising ‘false positives’ key to vaccinating against bovine TB

19 Feb 2015

New diagnostic tests are needed to make vaccination against bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) viable and the number of false positives from these tests...

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Flu vaccine

Staying ahead of the game: Pre-empting flu evolution may make for better vaccines

20 Nov 2014

An international team of researchers has shown that it may be possible to improve the effectiveness of the seasonal flu vaccine by ‘pre-empting’ the...

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Salmonella bacteria

Why live vaccines may be most effective for preventing Salmonella infections

18 Sep 2014

Vaccines against Salmonella that use a live, but weakened, form of the bacteria are more effective than those that use only dead fragments because of...

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Common chimpanzee

Ebola vaccine success highlights dilemma of testing on captive chimps to save wild apes

26 May 2014

Study illustrates “high conservation potential” of vaccines for endangered wild primates devastated by viral disease, but highlights need for access...

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Research reveals details of how flu evolves to escape immunity

21 Nov 2013

Study shows that seasonal flu escapes immunity with single amino acid substitutions.

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As intestinal fluid hydrates the capsule, both bile (brown) and water (blue) enter; bile-acid adsorbing resins (BARs, white) hold back the progress of the bile long enough for the water to rehydrate the bacteria (green)

Clearing the BAR to oral vaccines

10 Jun 2013

A new technology under development by an academic–industry partnership protects oral vaccines from destruction by the digestive system.

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