Prepare for a new flossophy. Dental floss has long been used to remove food particles, plaque and bacteria that a toothbrush can’t reach. Now, university researchers have demonstrated a new purpose ...

Shingles infection might help trigger dementia. And preventing it though vaccination might forestall the latter, too, studies ...

Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the ...

A stepwise HIV vaccine strategy has induced broadly neutralizing antibodies in primates, hinting that a truly protective HIV ...

An article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, describes advances in injection-free vaccination methods that are showing promise. As C&EN ...

A Johns Hopkins pancreatic cancer vaccine triggered immune responses in 90% of high-risk participants, with some cysts ...

A National Institutes of Health-funded study led by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University has shown that an influenza vaccine can produce robust immune responses and be ...

For children — and many adults — the fear of injections remains a major barrier to vaccination. But research led by Elodie Segura, PhD, from the Immunity and Cancer Laboratory at the Institut Curie in ...

Though the technology isn’t quite ready to deliver vaccines at scale, it could eventually provide a painless alternative to syringes. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...