by Stacey Hawkins | May 19, 2020 | Infectious Disease
News of positive data from Moderna’s (Cambridge, MA) Phase I trial of a COVID-19 vaccine has dominated this week’s headlines. Their vaccine is an mRNA-based vaccine—an entirely new approach to not only vaccines but also to therapeutics. mRNA-based drugs... 
by Stacey Hawkins | Nov 18, 2019 | Infectious Disease
Squash That Bug The flu. Need we say more? Why yes. Yes, we do! Last week, we examined all things flu: we talked about the influenza virus structure, how the pesky pathogen makes us feel so lousy, and why the vaccine’s effectiveness isn’t always up to sniff, er,...
