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Can you mix and match COVID-19 vaccine brands? Receiving a COVID-19 vaccine booster from any of the 3 main vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, or J&J) produces high levels of an immune response, regardless of the first type of vaccine.

Posted on March 24, 2022March 21, 2022 by Caroline Vrana-Diaz 704 views

In the United States, three vaccines were granted emergency use authorization against the COVID-19 virus between December 2020 and February…

Laboratory methods behind the polio vaccine discovery In 1949, Harvard scientists established a few tissue culture tricks that not only allowed Jonas Salk to develop the polio vaccine, but also became standard practice when growing polio in the lab. His team was awarded a Nobel Prize.

Posted on September 24, 2020January 15, 2021 by Gina Misra 962 views

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…