The Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, originally developed for tuberculosis prevention, has garnered considerable attention for its capacity to reprogramme the innate immune system. Beyond its ...

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses did not ...

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccines are given to more than 100 million children every year, but there is considerable debate regarding the effectiveness of BCG vaccination in preventing ...

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is one of the world’s oldest and most widely used vaccines. It was developed in the early 20th century to provide protection from tuberculosis. Surprisingly, this ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed the impact of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination on the protection provided by severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

Researchers headed by a team at Pitt University, in collaboration with scientists at Cornell University, have developed a self-destructing, intravenous (i.v.) Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine ...

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is the live attenuated vaccine form of Mycobacterium bovis used to prevent tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections. Now, using zebrafish “avatars,” a ...

A single injection of the 102-year-old tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, has proven effective at triggering an immune response in mice and shrank their liver cancer tumors, according to research by UC Davis ...

In a group of older patients with a median of two comorbidities, COVID infections were reported in 4.2% patients who received the BCG vaccine compared with 3.7% of those given placebo (HR 1.12, 95% CI ...

Using zebrafish “Avatars”, an animal model developed by the Cancer Development and Innate Immune Evasion lab at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), led by Rita Fior, Mayra Martínez-López – a former PhD ...

The in-built in protection mechanisms offer a safer and more effective way to combat the deadliest disease of 2024. A self-destructing vaccine administered intravenously provides additional safety and ...