Cell cultures have shown promise in representing diseases. The Petri dish is not as different from a sick person as one might think.
Manufacturing is just one part of the vaccine ecosystem. It’s the health system that delivers vaccines and people must be willing to take them.
Headlines around the world declared that a second person was cured of their HIV. But while the results are encouraging, we’re a long way from a cure.
If the curative thesis is true, then most medicine throughout history – as well as much contemporary medicine – isn’t medicine at all.
Because we’re still not sure exactly what causes dementia, finding a treatment is difficult.