In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed whether loss-of-function (pLOF) variants of type I interferon (IFN) immunity genes are associated with life-threatening ...

What started out as a breakout in one country has turned into a pandemic that has taken the lives of well over 11,000 people across the globe. In its early stages, COVID-19 was often compared to the ...

With the highly transmissible versions of Omicron now causing nearly all of the COVID-19 infections in the U.S., most people have likely gotten infected, even if they’ve been vaccinated and boosted.

Mixing vaccines could offer a stronger immune boost, preliminary data suggests. With the FDA gearing up to decide if all Americans need booster shots, some researchers are pointing to preliminary data ...

In a new study in JAMA Pediatrics, population-level effectiveness and herd immunity were robust 17 years after human ...

Results from a preclinical study in mice, led by EPFL, and a collaborative clinical study in patients show that the type 2 immune response – associated with parasitic infection and thought to play a ...

LA JOLLA, CA, March 2, 2009-A team of scientists at the Scripps Research Institute has found a way to use specially programmed chemicals to elicit an immediate immune response in laboratory animals ...

The Food and Drug Administration authorized an updated formula for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to adjust for the XBB1.5 variant this fall amid a surge in cases right after summer. With a long schedule of ...