Science news articles about 'polio virus'

Mr. Bachrach was a biochemist who helped produce an early vaccine to prevent foot and mouth disease in livestock and did important early research on the polio virus.

... Harvard virologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in medicine for developing techniques to grow the polio virus in the laboratory, a feat that laid the groundwork for the development of the polio ...

A new vaccine, active against one type of polio virus, is more effective than a vaccine targeting all types, according to two studies.

... $2 billion to stamp out the last traces of the polio virus. In one of its largest grants ever, the Bill and ...

... , a postdoctoral fellow in the Biology Department and lead author on the study, the rhinovirus is similar to the polio virus, whose vaccine was announced in 1955. But while the polio virus has just ...

... the evolutionary origin of two genes that serve as primary cellular sensors of infection with RNA viruses, such as influenza, polio virus, West Nile virus, and HIV, which may ultimately provide ...