Highlights of American Chemical Society's national meeting in New Orleans
... foodborne germs, vegetable oil for car engines, a vaccine to help smokers quit and chemical innovations to i... Center, Hall G) Tuesday, March 25 Advances in vaccine development and gene therapy HIV, smallpox, anthrax and smoking are among the topics that will be ...Researchers model evolution of influenza virus
... basis of such a response by influenza virus, then vaccine designers might use that understanding to develop a vaccine that offers more general immunity to the virus, said the scientists. The researchers -- led by Howar...Researchers discover strategy that shields HIV from destruction
... there is hope for the development of an effective vaccine to protect those people who are currently uninfected but at risk of becoming infected. "While neutralizing antibodies are obviously unable to completely eliminate HIV-1 from infected patients, the fact that they are sufficiently potent as to result i...Horse owners should vaccinate horses, experts say
...e in horses, the specialists said a new preventive vaccine against West Nile is effective and should be admin...s to talk to their veterinarians about getting the vaccine now, so their animals will be protected this summer," said Gregory Ferraro, director of the UC Davis...Bodys own antibodies may drive new strains of HIV
...accines to help stem the AIDS epidemic. So far, no vaccine has won Food and Drug Administration approval as s...fe and effective. Most scientists agree that for a vaccine to work, it will need to activate both arms of the immune system: antibodies, which are key in thwar...Six-week, six-shot regimen fights hayfever for more than one season
...ve," he added. The new treatment is an allergy vaccine created by attaching immune-system-boosting molecu...ad skin test reactions to ragweed pollen. Using a vaccine developed by scientists at University of California, San Diego, and produced by Dynavax Technologies...Making a safer anthrax vaccine using spinach
...on the study. "Purified PA is currently used as a vaccine against anthrax. However, the licensed vaccine derived from apathogenic B. anthracis has side effects and a more efficacious and safer vaccine is n...Bacterial viruses make cheap easy vaccines
...lity to elicit a protective immune response with a vaccine made of naked DNA. They found that not only could...e immune response. Using bacteriophages to deliver vaccine components offers several advantages over vaccination with naked DNA, says March. The DNA is protec...HHS announces contracts to develop safer smallpox vaccines
... a deliberate release of smallpox virus, we need a vaccine that can be safely given to all Americans, includi...ety trials of modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) vaccine candidates. Vaccinia virus, a close relative of smallpox virus, is used in traditional smallpox vacc...First population study of GM mosquitoes highlights difficulties facing malaria control technique
...ey have observed. With no immediate prospects of a vaccine against the disease that affects more than 300 million people every year, novel strategies to tackle malaria are keenly sought. One strategy is to release a strain of mosquito into the wild that has been genetically engineered so it cannot transmit t...Vaccine technique shows potential against common form of lung cancer
BOSTON In a demonstration of vaccine therapys potential for treating lung cancer, Dana-...tists and their associates report that a prototype vaccine boosted the natural immune response to tumors in a small group of patients with advanced non-small c...School of Public Health awarded $30 million to develop and introduce pneumococcal vaccine
...early 15 years after Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine was introduced in the United States and other rich...and financing issues that impede the uptake of the vaccine in developing countries. Establishing the burden of pneumococcal disease and the safety and effectiv...ASM biodefense meeting scheduled for March 2003
... be adapted to address biodefense needs, including vaccine development, new and faster diagnostics, and new t...ntibacterial countermeasures New approaches to vaccine development Using of nanotechnology to develop new diagnostics Comprehensive media facilities wi...Fighting fire with fire? Vaccine based on chimp virus shows promise against HIV
...zee virus has shown marked potency as a protective vaccine against HIV, itself believed to have crossed into ... Journal of Immunology. "Our results show this new vaccine is capable of inducing the kind of powerful immune response that we and others believe will be criti...Premature births soar in US, now #1 obstetric problem
... a tough campaign more difficult than finding the vaccine for polio, and folic acid education. We can't do this alone, we need the support of the American public, health professionals, the corporate community, and federal and state government officials. "We need to educate women about preterm labor, work ...Antibodies critical for fighting West Nile Virus infection
.... "Those are the people we'd want to target when a vaccine or treatment becomes available." Diamond and his colleagues now are studying how antibodies control infection and what other parts of the immune system are involved....Research reveals how strep bacterium evades immune system
...ch, Ph.D., states, "Our study identifies potential vaccine candidates and new targets for therapy interventio...e system and will inevitably spur the discovery of vaccine therapies and antibiotics that can prevent and treat invasive and noninvasive strains of this bacter...AVANT to develop an oral anthrax and plague vaccine for U.S. Department of Defense
...the U.S. Department of Defense an oral combination vaccine against anthrax and plague using AVANT's proprietary vaccine technologies. Under the agreement, AVANT may receive in excess of $8 million over a two-year period...Researchers decipher cause of parasites worldwide spread
...n infect so many hosts. "If one wanted to make a vaccine against this parasite, those genes and their products might be good ones to target," says Sibley....Emory Vaccine Research Center study identifies specific gene required for long-term immunity
...ty, and, therefore, to the success of a vaccine; a vaccine that fails to generate long-term immune memory does not protect against infection. People with SAP mutations often present with immunological abnormalities and chronic infections. Many of the deaths among people with X-linked lymphoproliferative dise...