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Article Genetic Vaccine Platforms Demonstrate Their Potential
Challener For a vaccine to be effective, the components of the disease of interest that provide protection from disease (an antigen) must be incorporated or present in the candidate and i…

Article Novel Vaccine Technologies Meet the Need for Pandemic and Therapeutic Solutions
Following the 2009 outbreak of the H1N1 pandemic flu and the numerous delays in producing vaccines against the virus, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recognized the need to invest…

Article Can Vaccine Development Be Safely Accelerated?
Biopharma companies responding to the COVID-19 outbreak think accelerating the development of vaccines is safe. By Cynthia A. Challener MONGKOLCHON - STOCK.ADOBE.COM …

Article Vaccine Development Faces Urgency and Challenges
By Jill Wechsler The Ebola outbreak in 2015 and the current stampede to develop a new vaccine to combat the Zika virus illustrate the increasingly important role of vaccines in advancing public he…

Article Lessons Learned Accelerate Vaccine Development
Challener Vaccine development is a complicated process that can take many years to bear fruit. More complicated diseases such as AIDS and malaria have proven particularly challenging in this respe…

Article Vaccine Development and Production Challenges Manufacturers
Researchers are advancing new vaccines for Ebola and other devastating diseases, while manufacturers work with FDA to bring to market new products to combat dangerous infections and strategies to impr…

Article Modern Manufacturing Key to More Effective Vaccines
By Jill Wechsler A lethal influenza outbreak this past winter has spotlighted the importance of improving and accelerating vaccine discovery and production. Reports that this year…

Article Ensuring Viral Safety of Viral Vaccines and Vectors
Viral vaccines rely on antigenic properties of a virus or virus-like particle (VLP) to trigger an immune response against an incipient viral infection. Because of the risks associated with live and in…

Article Bioprocessing Advances in Vaccine Manufacture
The vaccine industry, particularly, in major Western markets, continues to be dominated by a few major, long-established players that primarily manufacture aging, long-marketed, non-recombinant (nonge…

Article Novavax Reports on Two Vaccine Efficacy Studies
Novavax announced on June 14, 2021, results from two studies of is recombinant nanoparticle protein-based COVID-19 vaccine; in a large study, the vaccine candidate demonstrated 90.4% efficacy overall …

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