Human Genome Sciences announces the discovery of a novel immune stimulant
...tounderstand how the body fights infection and how vaccines work. It is our hopethat we can rapidly apply this discovery to the development of new treatmentsfor several serious immune deficiency diseases. We also hope that thisdiscovery will help to overcome the barriers to the creation of successfulvaccine...Rockefeller researchers inject cells, boost immune system in humans
Findings take important first step toward vaccines for cancer, viruses A single injection of specia...une response, and itsuggests new ways of improving vaccines and protecting against cancer. "We've shown for the first time that a single injection of mature den...USGS scientist receives award for brucellosis research in Greater Yellowstone Area
...ffectiveness and safety of cattle brucellosis vaccines in elk and bison," said Groat. Groat said that "solid and sound" information resulting in more accurate wildlife disease transmission models is the result of Roffe's other research, done in collaboration with other agencies, on ho......ng suggests that the substance in combination with vaccines could serveto enhance the ability of the bodies' i...vaccine booster) that can be included with subunit vaccines (those made withparts of bacteria, such as proteins) to push the immune system in the rightdirection...HIV variant in U.S. and Europe found rare in Africa AIDS cases
...tistsre-think certain aspects of the design of HIV vaccines and AIDS therapies forunderdeveloped regions, particularly sub-Saharan Africa and India, where theepidemic is expanding. In the United States and Western Europe, subtype, or "clade," B is themajor subtype of HIV and the most extensively stu...UI researchers advance potential, potent way to stimulate human immune system
...cine. Krieg said the findings may lead to improved vaccines and immune therapies forcancer. Human trials using CpG DNA to enhance a vaccine against Hepatitis B havestarted in Canada, and other clinical trials are planned for treating patientswith lymphoma at the UI beginning within a few months. Dendritic cel...UW-Madison team develops technique to create flu viruses
Technology may lead to more efficient vaccines and genetic therapies MADISON - A research team ...elopment may also lead to more efficient influenza vaccines and safer gene therapies, says Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a University of Wisconsin-Madison virologist and a...Biotechnology requires training across disciplines, and in business
...ab, Inc., a firm thatdevelops diagnostic tests and vaccines for human diseases. Wilkins also startedTransPharm, Inc., which merged with PPL Therapeutics, the company that wasinvolved in cloning Dolly and now produces human therapeutic enzymes in the milkof farm animals. Virginia Tech faculty members have also...New DNA vaccine could fight fish disease
...pular." The problem stems from the way DNA vaccines work. Unlike most vaccines,which contain material ...ng their fish vaccine. "Once the idea of human DNA vaccines isaccepted, it will be easier for veterinary vaccines." The vaccines do not genetically modif...Experts take aim at Montezuma's revenge at conference organized by UM school of medicine
...ys Dr.Mobley, who organized the conference. While vaccines are being developed to provide protection, education is also akey to preventing illnesses caused by the Campylobacter bacteria. Poultryexperts will be on hand to discuss food safety and reinforce the importance ofcooking chicken thoroughly to elimin...Hutchinson Center to lead $11.5 million ovarian-cancer research consortium
...te theeffectiveness of various interventions, from vaccines to screening tools.Ovarian cancer is very rare, which makes such trials very expensive to conduct.To design such trials efficiently, there needs to be a way to identifypopulations that are at greatest risk for developing the disease. The goal ofthis ...A molecular chink in the armor of tuberculosis
... from such studies could pave the way for improved vaccines and drugs to prevent TB, which kills more people each year than AIDS or malaria. In studies published in the November 4, 1999, issue of the journal Nature , Jacobs and colleagues Jeffery Cox and Bing Chen of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and ...Crack open an egg and cure a disease
...in purification to companies which already produce vaccines in chicken eggs-a long-established practice in the pharmaceuticals industry. Helen Sang, a chicken biotechnology researcher at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh is encouraged by the companies' work. "It is good progress, and proof of principle," she...New research illustrates role of CETP in atherosclerosis
... The Company and its collaborators are developing vaccines using itsproprietary adjuvants, Adjumer' and Micromer'. In a further collaboration, the Company is developingan oral human rotavirus vaccine, and is developing its own proprietary vaccine for the management ofatherosclerosis. <P...New tool provides major advance for understanding chronic Lyme disease and other illnesses
...disease. It also can be used to help design novel vaccines against infectious agents and tumors, and to identify candidate self-antigens and develop ways to turn off unwanted immune responses they might generate. "We are already using this technique in our study of multiple sclerosis," notes Dr. Martin. For......, which has important implications for research on vaccines and retroviral therapies, was presented on Sunday, Jan. 30, in a poster session at the Seventh Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco. "For the first time, we see that some HIV-positive men continuously produce, or...Study reveals family secret of how viruses enter cells
...e cells that control the muscles. Though effective vaccines have been developed against polioviruses, scientists did not have a clear understanding of how these viruses attached to molecules on the cell, called receptors, to initiate infection. Using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy and three-dime...Recombinant protein may play key role in treating immunocompromised patients
...ill have profound implications for developing safe vaccines to immunize similarly immunocompromised humans suc...without causing full-blown disease. However, when vaccines containing soluble proteins from the microorganisms are used to produce an immune response, the CTLs......oosened with the development of the Salk and Sabin vaccines in the 1950s and early 1960s. Meanwhile, poliovirus had become entrenched as a model system for understanding viruses. But the problem of how polio actually enters cells has been a tough nut to crack, mostly for technical reasons. Though intermedia...