National Institutes of Health (NIH)

A research group from the National Institutes of Health has successfully developed a vaccine against Sudan virus (SUDV) based on the licensed Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine.   SUDV, identified in 1976, is one of the four viruses known to cause human Ebolavirus disease. The new vaccine, VSV-SUDV, completely protected cynomolgus macaques against a lethal SUDV challenge. […]

A research team from Boston University has caused controversy for work involving the creation of a hybrid SARS-CoV-2 virus.  Researchers from Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories conducted a study1 to create a chimeric virus which combined the spike protein of the Omicron variant with the initial Wuhan strain of Covid-19.    The idea behind […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a Phase I clinical trial for a potential universal flu vaccine.   The trial will assess the vaccine candidate BPL-1357 which has been developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The candidate is a whole-virus vaccine made up of four strains of […]