Study reveals genetic activity of key step in malaria parasite's cycle
...nts to numerous new potential targets for drug and vaccine therapy. And the timing of expression of individua...to prevent the disease, and thus far no successful vaccine has been developed. In addition, in recent years there has been an increase in drug-resistant strain...Measles on the rise as vaccinations fall in the UK, Science study reports
...o control due to the lack of confidence in the MMR vaccine and because of this the United Kingdom has the pot... of the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine in 1998, vaccination numbers rose rapidly to a national average of 91 percent by the end of that yea...Infectious disease study findings presented by University of Pittsburgh scientists
...lem than many people realize." Because there is no vaccine available, current practice involves counseling and close monitoring of high-risk patients, which includes anyone who has school-age children and those who work with children such as teachers and day-care providers. These findings are being presented...First company founded on UCF biotechnology formed
...or use as a blood-extending agent and to produce a vaccine against the bioterrorism agents anthrax and plague. The company already has expressed these proteins in transformed seeds ready for scale-up. The Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, a biotechnology incubator in St. Louis, will be headquarters for...Study of leishmania parasite may lead to vaccine, new treatments
...could help efforts leading to the development of a vaccine to prevent this devastating disease." About 12 million people are thought to be infected with leishmania parasites worldwide. The parasite is spread by the bite of infected sand flies and can cause leishmaniasis, a sometimes fatal and disfiguring dis...Dengue infection more serious for elderly persons
...hs are generally uncommon from dengue, there is no vaccine available to prevent infection. Among all of the confirmed dengue cases in the study, hemorrhages [discharge of blood from the blood vessels] were reported less frequently among the elderly patients on dengue case investigation forms that accompanie...Anthrax research might provide more time for treatment
...e of the spores as a biological weapon. An anthrax vaccine currently is available, but large-scale use is not practical, says Kane. "An anthrax inhibitor also might be able to function as a preventive agent," says Kane, "and could be used as an alternative to passive immunotherapy." The inhibitor agent could...U.S. Army awards veterinary college researcher $1 million grant to develop vaccine
...1.06 million grant from the U.S. Army to develop a vaccine for tularemia. Thomas J. Inzana, the Tyler J. and...seases have begun a four-year program to develop a vaccine and diagnostic test for tularemia, which is commonly known as "rabbit fever." The etiologic agent o...Spectrum of West Nile symptoms includes paralysis
...y 1 percent of infected people. There is not yet a vaccine for humans, nor any specific treatment for viral infection....Is there a benefit to having been vaccinated against smallpox as a child?
...ssfully revaccinated by using diluted doses of the vaccine and with fewer side effects, according to research...at the country's limited stockpile of the smallpox vaccine could be diluted up to 10 times and retain its potency in individuals who had never before been vacc...JCI table of contents, July 1 2003
... programmed death of immune cells and increase DNA vaccine potency DNA vaccines deliver DNA of pathogenic an...he programmed self-destruction of DCs and enhances vaccine potency. TITLE: Enhancing DNA vaccine potency by coadministration of DNA encoding antiapoptotic prot...Towards an AIDS vaccine: unusual antibody that targets HIV described by scientists at TSRI
...ant step toward the goal of designing an effective vaccine against HIV, and it gives the researchers a new wa...ompelling medical challenges today is to develop a vaccine that will provide complete prophylactic protection to someone who is later exposed to this virus. An...Study links amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's brains to genes vital to normal memory
...roaches," he said. "For instance, you might give a vaccine or some other immune therapy to reduce the amyloid load and then start the patient on a memory-enhancing drug to block the effect of any remaining amyloid on normal learning and memory." "This interrogation of the genome reveals new targets for both ...Structure of HIV-neutralizing antibody solved
...duce 2G12. Such an antigen could be the basis of a vaccine against HIV. This research was led by Ian Wilson, ...ages scientists to look for potential HIV drug and vaccine targets using the tools of structural biology. These results show that structural biology can offer ...Pox to pimples; study says acne-like outbreak not vaccinia
The national smallpox vaccine program proved last year to be a bumpy road; it wa...ellow and co-investigator in Vanderbilt's smallpox vaccine clinical trials. (The national trials also were coordinated here.) He set the claims aside -- this...JCI table of contents, 2 June, 2003
...nd with lentiviral vectors Currently, there is no vaccine available that is able to cure cancer. The success of an antitumor vaccine will depend on its ability to induce robust and sustained tumor-specific immune responses. There is ...Turning foe into friend with lentiviral vectors
Currently, there is no vaccine available that is able to cure cancer. The success of an antitumor vaccine will depend on its ability to induce robust and sustained tumor-specific immune responses. There is ...Researchers discover possible diagnosis, treatment, vaccine for mad cow, prion diseases
...Medicine (neurology) and a Caprion founder, says a vaccine approach - which would likely be of most use in an..." The researchers are currently testing a possible vaccine to prion disease in mice. They plan to immunize mice with the Tyr-Tyr-Arg sequence and then infect t...Flu discovery to help thwart next pandemic
...cell's response, paving the way for a new class of vaccine against the flu strains that will cause the next p...change rapidly over time, eventually rendering any vaccine ineffective. Pandemics occur when there are large and sudden changes in the protein fragments on the...... health services must produce and distribute a new vaccine against the new flu strains each year. And each ye...alth-care provider. Also, the effectiveness of the vaccine is known to decline in the elderly, a population for whom flu infections can be particularly dangero...