Gates Foundation commits $82.9 million to develop new tuberculosis vaccines
...le every year. The grant, the largest ever for TB vaccine development, will allow Aeras to fund human trials...l more than double the amount spent annually on TB vaccine research worldwide. "It's unacceptable that TB continues to kill someone every 15 seconds when we ha...A link between thimerosal and the brain: Can vaccines affect central nervous system function?
... speculate that environmental exposures, including vaccine additives might contribute to the triggering of this disorder." Thimerosal, which was largely phased out in the U.S. and in Europe starting in 2000,was often used for its preservative abilities in multi-dose units of vaccines for diseases like hepat...A joint effort against the Oriental boil
...single bite is sufficient to cause an infection. A vaccine or medicinal preventive care is not yet available. Treatment of leishmaniasis is difficult: It is associated with side effects and is expensive which means that it cannot be afforded by poor patients. In Israel and the Palestinian areas three specie...JCI table of contents, February 2, 2004
...ps://www.the-jci.org/press/19140.pdf 3. Cancer vaccine using low affinity epitopes proves successful in mice Antitumor immunotherapy is a challenging endeavor since most human tumorassociated antigens are nonmutated self-proteins expressed on normal tissues. The ideal vaccination approach requires self-...Finding may help eczema sufferers tolerate smallpox vaccine
...tter predict and control reactions to the smallpox vaccine or similar agents," said Gallo. Gallo collaborate...a history of even mild AD who receive the smallpox vaccine are at high risk for eczema vaccinatum, a condition in which the live virus in the vaccine spreads t...Genomic changes reveal evolution of SARS virus
...ontrol. It also points to potential targets for a vaccine aimed at the "spike" protein, involved in viral-host receptor recognition and internalization. (Although Hua Tang, a Ph.D. student in Wu's lab, made significant contributions to the data analysis and interpretation, Tang and Wu emphasize that the bul......capable of spreading from person to person. A flu vaccine that might help prevent this will soon become avai...prevent this, the WHO wants to give the normal flu vaccine to everyone who might come into contact with sick poultry, as has been done in past outbreaks of bir...International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases
...ed to unexpected demand and shortages in influenza vaccine in the United States. Antibiotics continue to be less effective against many bacterial infections, while many drug companies are scaling back or abandoning anti-infective research. The ICEID program will include plenary sessions and symposia with i...Ten Chinese reporters receive AAAS Fellowships
...e to the public -- from sustainable development to vaccine research." Established to support best practices in science journalism, the new Fellowship program is being made possible through generous support from the William T. Golden Endowment Fund for Program Innovation. Chinese reporters who received the A...SARS coronavirus part bird, part mammal: study
...ugh there have been promising developments in SARS vaccine research, a truly effective vaccine is probably years away. "We hope that this work will contribute to the design of specific and effec...Ebola virus-like particles prevent lethal Ebola virus infection
...f this approach is that VLPs are not a traditional vaccine platform, so you don't have to worry about the rec...l." VLPS also have potential application beyond vaccine development--for example, they could be used to develop diagnostic reagents for identifying Ebola-in...Pittsburgh researchers engineer and successfully test SARS corona vaccine in animal model
...CDC) in Atlanta has shown that an adenoviral-based vaccine can induce SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-specific T-... first published work on the development of a SARS vaccine and comes only a few months after the SARS coronavirus was identified and its genome was sequenced, ...Complement inhibitor decreases heart attacks and death in men following cardiac surgery
...nt disease-causing agents and a novel, proprietary vaccine candidate for cholesterol management. AVANT's goal is to demonstrate proof-of-concept for its products before leveraging their value through partnerships. Current collaborations encompass the development of an oral human rotavirus vaccine, vaccines...US crackdown on bioterror backfiring
... collections are important for diagnosis, drug and vaccine testing, and for tracing outbreaks. After the 2001 anthrax attacks, for instance, one collection helped investigators to identify the strain used. "All clinical labs in this country have now dropped select agents and destroyed their archive stocks," ...Scientists unraveling lice genome to halt blood-sucking pest
...en or 15 years from now it would be wonderful if a vaccine is developed to control head lice, resulting in no more head lice problems in schools." The other Purdue researchers involved in this study are: Amanda Brandt and Hong-Mei Li, of the Department of Entomology; Rick Westerman, of the Purdue Computation...US develops lethal new viruses
... they have been given antiviral drugs as well as a vaccine that would normally protect them. The work has not stopped there. The cowpox virus, which infects a range of animals including humans, has been genetically altered in a similar way. The new virus, which is about to be tested on animals, should be le...Experimental hantavirus vaccine elicits strong antibody response in primates
... scientists have demonstrated that an experimental vaccine to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), a highly l...rovide proof of concept in nonhuman primates for a vaccine against HPS, as well as for post exposure prophylactic treatment of HPS and a related disease known ...JCI table of contents, 15 October, 2003
...d inflammation, and prolonged host survival. While vaccine development for H. capsulatum is an exciting area of research, vaccination may not be effective in immunocompromised individuals. Therefore it is conceivable that this group of individuals may benefit from passive therapy with specific monoclonal ant...Researchers show autoantibodies occur before lupus in New England Journal of Medicine
...trategies to stop that pathogen. Some think that a vaccine might be a successful approach."...New vaccines may address need to protect newborns in the developing world
...virus. By extension, the researchers say, the same vaccine strategy might also prove effective against other ...bodies circulating in the blood able to impair any vaccine based on a common human adenovirus. In essence, many people would be prevented by their own immune s...