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    • Dr Marios Koutsakos

    Research Officer, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    Health & Medicine

    The science behind the search for a COVID-19 vaccine

    Unless a new treatment is discovered, developing a vaccine is crucial to controlling COVID-19. In this special report, our experts explain the complex challenge of creating, testing and distributing a potential vaccine to end the coronavirus

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    Health & Medicine

    Our ‘killer’ cells’ role in life-long flu vaccine

    Killer immune cells that can fight all strains of influenza virus provide the potential for a universal, one-shot flu vaccine

    But I got my flu shot? Why the flu vaccine works for some and not others thumbnail image

    Health & Medicine

    But I got my flu shot? Why the flu vaccine works for some and not others

    New research has discovered why some people aren’t immune to the flu even after they’ve had the vaccination

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