Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that an attenuated (weakened) virus can help eliminate cancer in mice. In addition, mice that were treated with this virus were more resistant to ...

A live-attenuated vaccine under development is safe and 100% effective against Lassa virus in preclinical studies. A vaccine candidate against Lassa virus completely protected guinea pigs exposed to ...

This is Part III in a series on the enteroviruses that appear to cause a polio-like neurological disease, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Hopefully we can use what we have learned from both the success and ...

A recent Views & Comments article published in Engineering highlights advances in repurposing influenza viruses as flexible ...

The live attenuated flu vaccine (FluMist intranasally) appears more effective than the inactivated vaccine (Fluzone IM), based on a randomized trial of 8,352 immunocompetent children aged 6-59 months ...

The first case of polio in the U.S. since 2013 was announced by New York state health officials on July 21, 2022. The U.S. resident had not been vaccinated. Polio was a common cause of paralysis in ...

A promising strategy to reduce the impact of viral infectious diseases, such as influenza, is the use of attenuated, live viruses as vaccines. However, the usefulness of traditional live-attenuated ...

In the third year of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, the omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has swept the globe and yielded several ...