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A potentially longer-lasting cholera vaccine
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A potentially longer-lasting cholera vaccine

by American Chemical Society A virus-like particle (Qβ-OSP conjugate) displaying a polysaccharide from Vibrio cholerae bacteria generates a strong, long-lasting immune response in mice. Credit: Adapted from ACS Infectious Diseases 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00585 Cholera, a diarrheal disease caused by the highly transmissible bacteria Vibrio cholerae, kills tens of thousands of people each year worldwide. Current vaccines last only...

A longer-lasting COVID vaccine? Study points the way
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A longer-lasting COVID vaccine? Study points the way

by Tiare Dunlap, University of California, Los Angeles Microscope image showing a human cell (pink) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (green and purple). Credit: NIAID/NIH Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have identified rare, naturally occurring T cells that are capable of targeting...