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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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The race to create a COVID-19 vaccine has opened up greater transparency in the vaccine-making process, also opening the process to public scrutiny. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Search for COVID-19 vaccine continues with promising results

Daily Free Press Staff October 29, 2020
With more than 1 million people around the world dead from COVID-19, the hunt for a vaccine is underway, and more than 100 countries are aiding its development.
A shortage in dry ice, which is necessary to transport medical solutions, poses an unforeseen problem as coronavirus vaccines undergo development and testing. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Shortage of dry ice hinders coronavirus vaccine development

Samuele Petruccelli September 9, 2020
As potential coronavirus vaccines undergo development and testing, a shortage of dry ice has created uncertainty over how the vaccines will be transported.
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University is researching the novel coronavirus in order to develop vaccines and antiviral therapy treatments and understand how the disease spread. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

BU labs exploring COVID-19 vaccines

Sarah Readdean March 17, 2020
Researchers at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University are taking advantage of their unique facility in the global effort to develop effective vaccines and drug treatments to COVID-19.
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