Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

How to end a pandemic in one jab

Vaccines give us lifetime protection us against polio, measles, and smallpox. Why can’t they do the same for COVID, HIV, and the flu? Biologist Pamela J. Bjorkman has a promising new strategy.

Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

The benefit of boosters

Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

Viral venom

Laboratory of Molecular Immunology

As society reopens, scientists aim to close in on COVID

Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules

An intense new chapter

In early 2020, researchers everywhere united, scrambling to address a singular, urgent problem: a virus that was devastating the world. How they work and collaborate might never again be the same—it might be better.