A new way of thinking challenges standard notions about what a herpes vaccine should look like. New thinking about vaccine design has helped researchers forge ahead in developing a potential vaccine. Herpes simplex virus infections are an enormous global health problem and there is currently no viable vaccine. For nearly three decades, immunologists’ efforts to […]
Notes from members of ProjectAccept.org’s advisory council Vaccine Strategy: David Knipe is working with Sanofi on an HSV-2 vaccine; it’s a live, attenuated strain (deleted in a number of genes). Right now, he showed protection from primary infection in mice, and he’s answering a question right now about it being much […]