Dr. Edward Jenner invented the first vaccine for smallpox in 1796. Vaccines have helped protect people from serious diseases by building up the immune response. The practice of introducing small ...

What is an RNA vaccine? RNA vaccines, or messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, are a relatively new type of vaccine that delivers mRNA molecules to human cells, instructing them to produce specific antigens.

McKinsey and Company, San Francisco, CA, USA. Vaccines have been one of the most effective public health interventions in modern history, leading to the near eradication of diseases such as smallpox ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. While the media's attention has focused on unproven links between ...

Vaccine development is traditionally driven by financial return opportunities for investors, disease outbreaks, and a specific focus on emerging diseases. However, a new systematic, transparent, and ...

The World Health Organization on Tuesday listed 17 pathogens that cause widespread disease and death, including HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, for which it said new vaccines were "urgently needed".

mRNA technology is enabling an entirely new HIV vaccine strategy that, for the first time, successfully primes the immune system toward broadly neutralizing antibodies in humans. The TB vaccine ...