AI Is Helping Develop New Vaccines

In the early 2000s, immunologist Bali Pulendran started his lab at Emory University to explore the mechanisms underlying vaccine-mediated immunity. To uncover these processes, he focused on the yellow fever vaccine because it induced long-term immunity, sometimes for decades or even a lifetime. When he started digging into what was known about the underlying protective mechanisms, he found that “the truthful answer to this question was not a whole lot.”