New DNA-base vaccine approach protects mice against anthrax
...rhaps, safer -- way to produce vaccines against highly contagious dise... that suggested that DNA-based vaccines might be effective. By using combinations of two gene produc...Research reveals genetic makeup of salmonella responsible for food poisoning
...cs research, and disabled strains are used in live vaccines and to deliver anti-cancer drugs to tumor cells. It also causes a typhoid-fever-like illness in mice that is used as a model for studies related to human typhoid fever.Typhimurium is thought to be responsible for an estimated 1.4 million cases of foo...Anthrax - How to protect ourselves
... attack that may never happen isn't practical. All vaccines can cause side effects, and the anthrax one doesn't give full protection against all strains. Researchers are working on better treatments (see opposite), but at the moment antibiotics only work if given early enough. That means the key to saving li...Cyclin B1 identified as a new tumor antigen and candidate for the development of a cancer vaccine
...ns for all types of tumors and use them to develop vaccines that can stimulate an immune response to attack existing cancer cells, said Dr. Finn....Study: Immunize refugee children early to prevent deadly measles
...camps immunizing children with vaccines provided by UNICEF, and evaluating the vaccine capabilities in Kosovo after the war ended. The weeks passed quietly, aside from one very late night when he delivered a Kosovar couple's baby ...Hidden toxin gene in chlamydia linked to chronic illnesses
...ould have a major new target for diagnostic tests, vaccines and drugs." Dr. Caldwell joined Robert Belland, Ph.D., and their colleagues to look for the toxin using a new tool: the genetic blueprint of C. trachomatis. The researchers compared the genomes of two C. trachomatis strains: one that is restricted t...Antibodies to liver stage associated with malaria resistance
...ould eventually lead to new strategies for malaria vaccines or treatments. "Malaria occurs in stages in th... that information into developing new long-lasting vaccines and therapies."...Vaccine protects against fatal West Nile complication
...cal Diseases at UTMB and his colleagues tested two vaccines for Japanese encephalitis (JE) for their its abili...st that two widely used Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccines might be used as interim vaccines to protect high risk human populations against West Nile encephali......l genes and proteins, and to develop new drugs and vaccines that specifically target each organism." With NIAID support, scientists from TIGR and other institutions have already finished sequencing the DNA of many pathogens, including those that cause tuberculosis, cholera, chlamydial infections and syphilis....Scientists milk animals for malaria vaccine
...or innovative strategies that will bring effective vaccines to regions where economic conditions preclude the use of costly alternatives. Transgenic animals could be one way to accomplish that goal. The study involved many researchers from the two participating institutions. Among these, Drs. Li-How Chen an...Required activation 'cascade' identified for p53 tumor-suppressor protein
...to improve world health through the development of vaccines against rabies, rubella, rotavirus, cytomegalovirus, and other viruses and the identification of genes associated with breast, lung, prostate and other cancers....UT Southwestern researchers develop new method of delivering vaccines
...fficient method of delivering dendritic cell-based vaccines a discovery that moves anti-tumor vaccines closer to a practical reality. Until now, the conventional method to develop these vaccines involved...UCLA researchers invent first technique to image Alzheimer's onset
..."This non-invasive method will help us monitor new vaccines and drugs designed to prevent and treat the brain damage caused by Alzheimers disease," said co-author Dr. Gary Small, Parlow-Solomon Professor of Aging and UCLA professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences. Physicians regard these brain lesion...HIV-like virus detected in wild chimpanzee
...d yield insights that will aid development of AIDS vaccines and antiviral drugs, said Shaw....Virulence molecules found for poultry bursal virus
...s recently created new, cost-effective recombinant vaccines to fight IBDV. However, the unpredictable nature o...us with even more effective genetically engineered vaccines that can be administered to the chicken but will not cause the disease, while producing a strong pro......t reasons. We can start developing strategies and vaccines against the JC Virus, which will hopefully lead to the prevention of the brain tumors it induces, he says. ...Dartmouth researchers expose weakness of common parasite
...f Nature, opens new avenues for the development of vaccines and other treatments for diseases such as toxoplas...sponse that is likely to be beneficial for certain vaccines targeted against other challenging infectious diseases or cancer," added Fox. "Parasites have been...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: February 2002
...tein is a required component of anthrax toxins and vaccines based on PA teach the body to recognize and neutra.... Such a strategy is currently used in veterinary vaccines for the immunization of animals, but not in humans. We present evidence that inclusion of killed sp......is adjuvant may be an effective tool in generating vaccines against a variety of intracellular microbial pathogens including HIV....... reaching as high as 80%. Effective therapies and vaccines are dependent upon a more complete understanding o...hors speculate that these VLPs may have utility as vaccines against these lethal pathogens....