Cambridge University’s needle-free coronavirus vaccine begins clinical trials in home city
Recruitment is underway in Cambridge for volunteers to take part in clinical trials of a revolutionary new needle-free vaccine to protect against SARS-CoV-2 –
April 24, 2023 • ~2 min
Roadmap sets out new global strategy for development of more effective coronavirus vaccines
Plan will accelerate a new approach to coronavirus vaccines research and development, to protect against COVID-19 variants and future pandemic threats from new
Feb. 21, 2023 • ~8 min
COVID has increased trust in genetics, study finds
A survey of over 2,000 British adults finds that trust in genetics is high and went up significantly during the pandemic. It also finds that there is a hunger
Jan. 26, 2023 • ~4 min
Gone fishing: highly accurate test for common respiratory viruses uses DNA as ‘bait’
A new test that ‘fishes’ for multiple respiratory viruses at once using single strands of DNA as ‘bait’, and gives highly accurate results in under an hour,
Jan. 16, 2023 • ~6 min
‘Cocktail’ vaccines could offer increased protection against future COVID-19 variants of concern
COVID-19 vaccinations that combine two or more distinct variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus could offer protection against both current and future ‘variants of
Dec. 14, 2022 • ~4 min
Synthetic biology meets medicine: ‘programmable molecular scissors’ could help fight COVID-19 infection
Cambridge scientists have used synthetic biology to create artificial enzymes programmed to target the genetic code of SARS-CoV-2 and destroy the virus, an
Nov. 16, 2022 • ~6 min
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