While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.

A challenging public health policy landscape under health secretary Robert F. Kennedy has vaccine makers rethinking developing for the U.S. market.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. While the media's attention has focused on unproven links between ...

Platform-enabled vaccine design unlocks safer, more effective solutions with outer-membrane vesicles (OMVs) emerging as next-generation technology.

Plotkin is sometimes called the “godfather of vaccines.” His contributions to vaccinology are so substantial, they literally ...

Senior Manufacturing Science Associate Diane Morgan performs an analysis of plasmid DNA at Vernal Biosciences in Colchester on Tuesday, Aug. 12. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger U.S. Health and Human ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

THE VACCINE MAKER MODERNA decided this past week to tell the world about bad news it had received from the federal government ...

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