It wasn't so long ago that nearly all big pharma outfits and even many biotech firms put vaccine development on the very bottom of their wish list. More
Campylobacter jejuni is the leading bacterial cause of diarrhoea in the US, however, until methods were developed for isolating the organism from faeces in 1972, it was regarded mainly as an animal pathogen. More
Future vaccines will do more than "just" protect against micro-organisms, vaccines could be developed to treat or prevent several non-infectious conditions including diabetes and cancer. More