Find out how different vaccines for the coronavirus cause your body to create antibodies that fight the virus.

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers working at Ohio State University in the United States of America (USA) developed an intranasal subunit vaccine. Study: An intranasal ...

Novavax’s updated protein-based COVID-19 vaccine has finally won authorization from the Food and Drug Administration, a late-coming achievement that provides Americans with their only alternative to ...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, has claimed more than 6.92 million lives and infected over 765 ...

Vaccines that resemble viruses generally produce a stronger immune response, while mRNA versions are much quicker and cheaper to make. Now we are getting the best of both worlds, in the form of mRNA ...

Subunit vaccines use a small part of a pathogen to train our immune system to fight off future infection. They cannot cause disease but may need the addition of other chemicals for the vaccine to ...

Recombinant protein vaccines, which are obtained by conventional genetic engineering, are based on the proteins of target pathogens that can activate our immune systems. Unlike other types of vaccines ...