
Category: How do scientists study drugs and vaccines?
How do scientists study the safety and efficacy of drugs and vaccines? How do we develop new drugs and vaccines?



Deliberately infecting volunteers with COVID-19 to speed up vaccine development? Human challenge trials, a process whereby healthy volunteers are given potential vaccines and then infected with COVID-19, could be a way to speed up vaccine development and reduce the global burden of coronavirus.
November 24, 2020 by Caroline Vrana-Diaz Read More

Laboratory methods behind the polio vaccine discovery In 1949, Harvard scientists established a few tissue culture tricks that not only allowed Jonas Salk to develop the polio vaccine, but also became standard practice when growing polio in the lab. His team was awarded a Nobel Prize.
September 24, 2020 by Gina Misra Read More