University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

Currently, IPV is relatively expensive to produce because it requires high levels of bio-containment to minimise the risk of leaks of live poliovirus, which could result in outbreaks. VLPs are ...

A TECHNIQUE has been developed for observing monochromatic Cathodoluminescence from semiconductors in the scanning electron microscope, enabling optical micro-analysis of materials to be carried ...

A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the internal structure of a thin sample. Scanning electron microscopy generates a topological image of a sample. Frontotemporal dementias can ...

Pakistan’s first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 launched the first week of February, aiming to vaccinate over 45.4 million children under the age of 5 in 159 of the country's 166 districts.

It aims to vaccinate more than 591,000 children under 10, the WHO said. A mass polio vaccination campaign is set to continue in Gaza after the virus was recently detected in wastewater samples.

The case was reported on Wednesday (February 12, 2025). The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad confirmed that the new infection of ...

LONDON (Reuters) -The eradication of polio as a global health threat may be delayed unless U.S. funding cuts – potentially totaling hundreds of millions of dollars over several years – are ...

RAWALPINDI: Pakis­tan Inter­national Airlines has advised travellers visiting Saudi Arabia to br­ing their polio vaccination certificate to the airport in order to avoid any inconvenience ...

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed a polio case from District Thatta, Sindh, marking the fourth such case in the province and ...

President Trump on Thursday took a swing at Senator Mitch McConnell’s battle with polio after the 82-year-old lawmaker voted against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for Secretary of Health ...