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Could a single vaccine work against all coronaviruses? Scientists are working on one. A nurse preparing doses of the Pfizer vaccine for health workers in Barcelona, Spain, last week.Credit...Samuel Aranda for The New York Times Feb. 11, 2021 The invention of Covid-19 vaccines will be remembered as a medical milestone. But many scientists are also seeking a vaccine that could work against all coronaviruses. Researchers are starting to develop prototypes of what’s known as a pancoronavirus vacc...

Researchers are working on prototypes of a so-called pancoronavirus vaccines with promising, but early, results from experiments on animals.

Vaccines have been part and parcel of our lives for hundreds of years. But what types are there and how do they really work? To get some of the inside information, we went to the Saint Louis University Center for Vaccine Development and its director, Dr. Daniel Hoft. He stops by (virtually) to talk about the history and inner workings of vaccines this week on STEM Spots. Listen to the segment below. Listen

"We all talk about pandemic preparedness. So that's what this is about," said Andrew Allen, CEO of Gritstone Oncology.