No need for a cold chain with these thin films
Most vaccines and biologics must stay cold until ready for use, but new thin film technology stabilizes these therapeutics for months at room temperature.
Infectious Disease & Vaccines
A conference and a COVID-19 close call
As scientific conferences return to in person programming, we still need COVID-19 precautions.
Detecting disease in breath
Researchers are rooting through the concoction of compounds in exhaled breath vapor for metabolic manifestations of COVID-19 and cancer.
Mining mucus for drug inspiration
Therapeutics that mimic or manipulate components of mucus may protect against deadly infections.
Calculating better tuberculosis treatments
Denise Kirschner developed an equation-based lung model of a fatal but forgotten infectious disease, revealing an unexpected role for math in drug discovery.
Better rabies treatments bite back
Symptomatic rabies has no cure, but recent advances in rabies structural biology and antibody cocktails point to better treatments on the horizon.
Origami vaccines fold up to fight cancer
As self-assembling structures, DNA and RNA origami vaccines hold vaccine components in precise numbers and arrangements to help the immune system attack tumors.
A spoonful of oleogel helps the medicine go down
Scientists developed a gel formulation that makes swallowing medicines easier.
Tiny needles make a big impact for vaccine delivery
Microarray, or microneedle, patches could boost vaccine access in low- and middle-income countries.
Martyr microbes protect the pack by sensing a viral attack
Bacteria can stop a viral infection by an act of altruistic suicide.
