Tagged with vaccine development

Here’s why we don’t have a vaccine for Zika (and other mosquito-borne viruses)

Institute for Glycomics and the Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery will explore the effects Zika virus has on neurological cells.
Griffith Sciences
Published AuthorMelinda Rogers
By Suresh Mahalingam, Principal Research Leader, Institute for Glycomics As Zika fear rises, especially in the wake of the World Health Organization last night declaring a state of public health emergency, people are inevitably asking why we don’t have a vaccine to protect against the mosquito-borne virus. Zika is generally a mild illness, causing fever, […]

Sweet and sticky: Bacteria use sugars to bind to human cells

Professor Michael Jennings and Dr Christopher Day have research published int he Proceedings of the National Academy of Science journal.
Griffith Sciences
Published AuthorMelinda Rogers
A team at Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics has made a scientific discovery that will change the way scientists explore vaccine development and drug discovery for infectious diseases. In a paper published in prestigious American journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the team led by senior authors Professor Michael Jennings, Professor Victoria […]