A long-running debate in vaccine design revolves around whether a vaccine should be optimized to prevent the virus from ...

When vaccines are designed, scientists have aimed to prevent the virus from spreading to others, or stop it from producing ...

The US FDA’s vaccine advisors have recommended that three new influenza strains be included in next winter’s influenza vaccine, aiming in part to tamp down illness caused by subclade K, a mutated form ...

While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.

The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy and noses are running. We feel ill and hope it is not the flu. The ...

Stanford Medicine researchers reported this week that an intranasal vaccine formula protected mice against a striking range ...

Prior exposure to one strain of influenza virus may weaken children's ability to mount an effective antibody response against ...

Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic invaders as they latch on, glide across the surface and slip inside. Instead of a ...