LSU Vet School receives $9.9 million for infectious disease research
... five initial research projects are: "New measles vaccine strategy using VSV vectors," Cristian Apetrei, Ph.D., Tulane National Primate Research Center; "Early RSV exposure leads to adult airways disease," Stephania A. Cormier, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, LSU College of Basic Sciences; "Host r...New glycan arrays discover autoimmunogenic activities of SARS-CoV: concern over monkey vaccine
...o study an inactivated SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) vaccine and discovered autoimmunogenic activity of this ne...g antibodies elicited by an inactivated SARS viral vaccine and found: 1.) An undesired autoantibody reactivity is present in SARS-CoV neutralization antibodie...Growing new breed of vaccine-producing plants to fight human diseases worldwide
...od industry, to yield uniform doses of heat-stable vaccine for oral delivery, Arntzen said. He provided a s... the strategies used to ensure that plants used in vaccine manufacture will not be mixed with those used in the food chain, and on the rationale for adoption o...Children's Hospital Boston receives more than $10 million to help make smallpox vaccine safer
...stigate why atopic dermatitis predisposes smallpox vaccine recipients to EV. "Since 5 percent of kids and a...in the past. Also, since the virus in the smallpox vaccine is live, it can spread from contact with people who have been vaccinated." Geha will head up the Ani...Scientists discover new intricacies in how ulcer bugs stick to stomach
...is, July 22, 2004 Scientists working to develop a vaccine for the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, the primary...s of H. pylori that are the targets of a long-term vaccine development effort. "If we can improve our understanding of how H. pylori adheres to the stomach...Mapping the evolution of a virus
... mapping method will allow researchers involved in vaccine development and viral surveillance programs for in...n assist in monitoring antigenic differences among vaccine and circulating viral strains, and can help in quantifying the effects of vaccination. The approach ...Patients' cells from tumors, the immune system merged for customized cancer therapy
...atients' tumor cells. "We aimed to develop a novel vaccine that took whole tumor cells with their complete ar... fusion cells in the laboratory. The effect of the vaccine on the patient's immune system was measured by the number of circulating T cells that reacted with t...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ntial Biowarfare Agent A new experimental vaccine may protect against brucellosis in humans say rese...e Control as bioterror threat agents. "A human vaccine would be valuable for individuals who may be occupationally exposed to brucellae and for persons who...Protective mechanism exploited by tumors may provide new cancer treatment
...proaches such as chemotherapy and possibly a tumor vaccine that stimulates the immune response. "It's a general property of any tumor that survives long enough to come to medical attention that it has figured out a way to evade the immune system," Dr. Munn says. "What we would hope is that some group of tumo...Institute for OneWorld Health receives Gates Foundation grant
...linda Gates Foundation to support development of a vaccine for the prevention and treatment of malaria, inclu..., will conduct various studies to confirm that key vaccine components can be produced with the ultimate goal of meeting U.S. Food and Drug Administration requi...Triple-vaccine strategy stimulates strong HIV-specific immune response in monkeys
...e strategy aimed at creating an effective anti-HIV vaccine regimen. In a test of the new approach, the scient...ety of reasons, it may not be possible to create a vaccine that generates antibodies able to neutralize HIV," says Hildegund C.J. Ertl, M.D., professor and imm...Call for greater involvement of developing world scientists in fight against AIDS
...f some of the world's most prominent scientists, a vaccine that would protect against the disease is still a long way from reality. Drugs that help fight the virus and alleviate the disease symptoms are available, but are expensive and unavailable to many sufferers living in the world's developing countries....Mosquito researchers track dengue fever in Sonora, Mexico
...ut five percent of patients. Currently there is no vaccine against the disease. "The way to look at it is, dengue is an enemy," said Therese Ann Markow, director of the UA Center for Insect Science and Regents' Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. "The idea is to get to know your enemy well in ord...Study supports association between HPV infection and head and neck cancer
...ite. "The promising results from a trial of an HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer raises hope that such a strategy can also be used to reduce the incidence of HNSCC."...Herpes tool allows researchers to customize Alzheimer's vaccine
...sts have taken an important step toward creating a vaccine against Alzheimer's disease, customizing the respo...de effects seen in a previous study in people of a vaccine against Alzheimer's. The work was published on-line June 25 in Neurobiology of Aging. Though the cu...RSV can increase the risk of asthma, UT Southwestern researchers find
...mplications for the potential benefits of a future vaccine against RSV." To establish the link between RSV and asthma, researchers infected healthy mice with RSV and monitored the animals for 154 days. The infected mice developed pneumonia as well as chronic lung problems. The RSV-infected group developed ai...Hope Clinic of Emory Vaccine Center receives CDC contract
...rom the Atlanta community participating in our HIV vaccine trials," Dr. Priddy said. "People in Atlanta recognize that HIV prevention research is important. We will need their participation to make an effective microbicide against HIV a reality."...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...related proteins combined may produce an effective vaccine against strangles in horses say researchers from t...dy, mice were immunized with a recombinant subunit vaccine containing parts of the three proteins, FNZ, SFS, and EAG from S. equi either subcutaneously (under ...Inadequate vaccines can help breed more vicious malaria strains
...une system to kill parasites but, unless a malaria vaccine leads to the death of every single parasite, the o... remain, but these results make a strong case that vaccine development aimed at containing infectious pathogens would do well to consider the evolutionary impl......er could have dire consequences. Should one of the vaccine flaviviruses recombine with a wild-type virus, a n...ned from other live virus vaccines: reversion of vaccine strains to increased virulence; development of disease in individuals with compromised immune syste...