Cambridge COVID vaccine in clinical trials
14 Dec 2021 Safety trials are underway for a vaccine developed by Cambridge researchers that could be used as a booster targeting COVID-19 virus variants and...
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Diphtheria risks becoming ‘major global threat’ again as it evolves resistance to antimicrobials
08 Mar 2021 Diphtheria – a relatively easily-preventable infection – is evolving to become resistant to a number of classes of antibiotics and in future could...
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Single dose of Pfizer BioNTech vaccine reduces asymptomatic infections and potential for SARS-CoV-2 transmission
26 Feb 2021 New data from Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge suggests that a single dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine can reduce by 75% the number of...
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Pfizer BioNTech vaccine likely to be effective against B1.1.7 strain of SARS-CoV-2
02 Feb 2021 The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine BNT162b2 is likely to be effective against the B1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2, even though its efficacy is modestly affected...
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Reflections on a year of fighting COVID-19
11 Dec 2020 2020 will be forever remembered for COVID-19. As the year draws to a close, Dr Estée Török looks back at how colleagues across the NHS and the...
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COVID-19: What to expect from a vaccine
11 Sep 2020 Vaccine expert Professor Gordon Dougan looks at the challenges of developing and delivering a vaccine against COVID-19.
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Cambridge-developed SARS-CoV-2 vaccine receives £1.9million from UK government for clinical trial
26 Aug 2020 A Cambridge-developed vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 could begin clinical trials in the UK in late autumn or early next year, thanks to a £1...
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Ebola and Lassa fever targeted by new vaccine trial and improved surveillance
25 Sep 2018 Scientists hope that a new approach to vaccine development, combined with improved surveillance of potential future threats of outbreak, could help to...
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Study clears important hurdle towards developing an HIV vaccine
13 Sep 2017 An international team of researchers has demonstrated a way of overcoming one of the major stumbling blocks that has prevented the development of a...
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Call to arms: how lessons from history could reduce the ‘immunisation gap’
25 Apr 2016 A rise in the number of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases has highlighted the growing trend for parents not to have their child vaccinated...
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