Prepare for a new flossophy. Dental floss has long been used to remove food particles, plaque and bacteria that a toothbrush can’t reach. Now, university researchers have demonstrated a new purpose ...

Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the ...

An article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, describes advances in injection-free vaccination methods that are showing promise. As C&EN ...

Shingles infection might help trigger dementia. And preventing it though vaccination might forestall the latter, too, studies ...

Though the technology isn’t quite ready to deliver vaccines at scale, it could eventually provide a painless alternative to syringes. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

A National Institutes of Health-funded study led by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University has shown that an influenza vaccine can produce robust immune responses and be ...

A stepwise HIV vaccine strategy has induced broadly neutralizing antibodies in primates, hinting that a truly protective HIV ...

Dr Sowrabh Kumar Arora and Dr Malay Nandy explain why head and neck cancer is on the rise. They also explains why early ...