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Category: How do scientists study drugs and vaccines?

How do scientists study the safety and efficacy of drugs and vaccines? How do we develop new drugs and vaccines?
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Deliberately infecting volunteers with COVID-19 to speed up vaccine development?

Posted on November 24, 2020December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

A potential way to speed up vaccine development: human challenge trials. #covid19 #research

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    The simple lab technique that changed everything

    Posted on November 19, 2020December 5, 2023 by Sciworthy

    What do gene sequencing, catching criminals with DNA evidence, and “designer babies” all have in common? Forty years ago, these were all…

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      Laboratory methods behind the polio vaccine discovery

      Posted on September 24, 2020June 24, 2025 by Gina Misra

      Poliomyelitis is the name of the disease caused by the poliovirus, and it mostly affects children under the age of 5, causing paralysis in a…

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        Can a Chinese medicinal herb Psoralea fructus build healthy bones?

        Posted on September 9, 2020June 24, 2025 by Sciworthy

        Osteoblasts are cells that are responsible for bone formation. A lack of osteoblasts will cause osteoporosis – a disease that occurs when…

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