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That wasn’t what they… Read more Covid-19 Mucosal Covid Vaccines Advancing, Plus a New Type of Vax in Development (Next Generation Update 16) April 30, 2024 By Hilda Bastian This month, most of the news is in mucosal vaccine development again. These vaccines aim to block Covid infection. An aerosol vaccine… Read more Covid-19 A Huge Boost for Mucosal Covid Vax Development (Next Generation Update 15) March 29, 2024 By Hilda Bastian Mucosal vaccines go directly into the mucosal tissue where infection begins – for example, intranasally or via tablets. If they could induce… Read more Bias Study Preregistration and Avoiding the Methods Fetish/Demonization Trap March 22, 2024 By Hilda Bastian This month, there was a thought-provoking 2-day workshop about preregistering studies, held at the Royal Society in London. 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