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How are vaccines made?

Vaccines have long been hailed as one of our greatest public health achievements. They can be made to protect us from infections with either viral or bacterial microbes. Measles and smallpox, for ...
Scientists are developing broad-spectrum vaccines that could protect against multiple virus families by targeting more ...
Why are vaccines so hard to make? The fda approved two mRNA vaccines for COVID-19, but it was a challenge to make this type of vaccine work. In fact, it took decades of research to get us to the point ...
The University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Steven L. Zeichner, MD, PhD, is optimizing a vaccine-development platform he has created to accelerate how quickly life-saving vaccines can be designed ...