A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the findings show that VLPs produced in both yeast and insect cells can perform equally or better than the current inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), which ...

Since being discovered in the 1950s, experiments on HeLa cells have played a role in developing advances like the polio and COVID-19 vaccines, treatments for cancer, HIV, AIDS, and much more.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the findings show that VLPs produced in both yeast and insect cells can perform equally or better than the current inactivated polio vaccine (IPV ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

Most polio infections are minor, with some causing a fever and sore throat. In less than 1 percent of infections, the virus attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control movement.

It aims to vaccinate more than 591,000 children under 10, the WHO said. A mass polio vaccination campaign is set to continue in Gaza after the virus was recently detected in wastewater samples.

Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts.