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Technology

23 entries

mRNA Platform

TechnologyVirus2020

mRNA vaccine technology represents a paradigm shift in vaccinology. Key advances came from Katalin K...

Vaccine Cold Chain

TechnologyInfrastructure1960

The vaccine cold chain is the temperature controlled supply chain that maintains vaccine potency fro...

Vaccine Adjuvants

TechnologyInfrastructure1925

Vaccine adjuvants are substances that enhance the immune response to vaccine antigens. Aluminum salt...

Vaccine Cold Chain Nigeria

TechnologyInfrastructure2016

Maintaining vaccine cold chain in northern Nigeria is particularly challenging due to high temperatu...

Vaccine Manufacturing India

TechnologyInfrastructure1966

India is the worlds largest vaccine producer by volume, commonly cited as supplying around 60 percen...

Vaccine Vial Monitors

TechnologyInfrastructure1996

Vaccine Vial Monitors VVMs are small heat sensitive labels that change color when exposed to excessi...

Vaccine Manufacturing mRNA

TechnologyInfrastructure2022

mRNA vaccine manufacturing differs fundamentally from traditional vaccine production. mRNA vaccines ...

Vaccine Immune Amnesia

TechnologyEvent2019

Measles causes immune amnesia, erasing existing immune memory. A 2019 Science study by Michael Mina ...

Vaccine Original Antigenic Sin

TechnologyEvent1960

Original antigenic sin, a term coined by Thomas Francis Jr in 1960, describes the immune systems ten...

Vaccine Adjuvant Aluminum

TechnologyEvent1932

Aluminum salts have been used as vaccine adjuvants since the 1920s. Alexander Glenny at the Wellcome...

Vaccine Manufacturing Eggs

TechnologyEvent1940

Egg based vaccine manufacturing has been the backbone of influenza vaccine production since the 1940...

Vaccine Thermostable

TechnologyEvent2010

Thermostable vaccines that do not require cold chain could revolutionize vaccination in developing c...

Vaccine Microneedle Patch

TechnologyEvent2015

Microneedle patches are being developed for needle free vaccine delivery. The patches contain hundre...

Vaccine Self Amplifying

TechnologyEvent2021

Self amplifying RNA saRNA vaccines are a next generation mRNA technology. Unlike conventional mRNA v...

Vaccine Plant Based

TechnologyEvent2020

Plant based vaccine production uses plants as bioreactors to produce vaccine antigens. Medicago, a C...

Vaccine Virus Like Particles

TechnologyEvent1986

Virus like particles VLPs are protein structures that mimic viruses but contain no genetic material....

Vaccine Reverse Vaccinology

TechnologyEvent2000

Reverse vaccinology uses genomic information to identify vaccine targets without culturing the organ...

Vaccine Coronaviral Structure

TechnologyEvent2017

The determination of the prefusion stabilized coronavirus spike protein structure by Jason McLellan,...

Vaccine Mucosal

TechnologyEvent2020

Mucosal vaccines delivered through the nose or mouth may provide better protection against respirato...

Vaccine Universal Coronavirus

TechnologyEvent2021

Universal coronavirus vaccine research aims to develop vaccines that protect against all coronavirus...

Vaccine COVID Novavax Adjuvant

TechnologyEvent2021

The Matrix M adjuvant used in the Novavax COVID vaccine is derived from the bark of the Quillaja sap...

Vaccine Records Digital

TechnologyEvent2020

Digital vaccine records improve vaccination tracking and reduce missed opportunities. Immunization I...

Vaccine One Health

TechnologyEvent2005

One Health vaccination targets both humans and animals. Rabies vaccination of dogs prevents human ra...