Chimpanzee virus may be key to better vaccines, study shows
...e retooled in the laboratory to serve as effective vaccines against an array of viral diseases. When genetical...d not be inactivated due to viral pre-exposure, as vaccines based on human adenoviruses can be." For the study, the scientists developed two prototype vaccines ...UT Southwestern researchers link human lymphomas to polio vaccine tainted with monkey virus
...ing and early detection techniques before yielding vaccines or therapies. We have some clues, but its not going to be fast, Gazdar said. The first thing is for scientists around the world to duplicate our research. Fortunately, Dr. Janet Butel, a noted virologist from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, h...Scientists solve first flavivirus structure
...Opening doors to the possibility of developing new vaccines and antiviral agents to fight a host of insect-bor...ds of people ill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Though vaccines have been developed for dengue, control of the virus by vaccination has proved to be elusive. The di...NIAID unveils bioterrorism research agenda
... and to quickly develop new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines to protect the public." The Research Agenda was ...de the information needed to develop new drugs and vaccines to combat possible bioterrorism-caused diseases. Human immune response. Increased research on the ...Multimillion dollar immunology research directed at edible or nasally delivered vaccines
...essor of PPWS. "The idea is to deliver inexpensive vaccines in a form that doesn't require sophisticated medic...ny deaths in Third World countries. If inexpensive vaccines could be developed against such diseases in animals and humans, the potential for saving lives would...Researchers identify immune response to tuberculosis infection
...ything that moves us even a little closer to these vaccines is very important. The existing TB vaccine created in 1908 and first used in 1921 has proven successful in protecting children from the disease, but has had varied effectiveness in adults. In the new study, lead author Zheng Chen, M.D., of the BIDM...UF researcher develops AIDS vaccine for cats
... line of research about FIV and the development of vaccines against feline AIDS, starting from the first ident...an extremely important step forward in the area of vaccines against lentiviruses in general, since it represents the first vaccine to be considered of practical...First vaccine for cat AIDS approved for veterinary use
...sequent recombinant DNA assay for HIV. Research on vaccines for the different viruses that cause AIDS in cats, monkeys and humans continues at UC Davis, which has the distinction of being home to a veterinary school, medical school and a regional primate research center. Feline immunodeficiency virus is trans...Traits link viruses from common cold to HIV
...tinct. The finding could well speed the search for vaccines and treatments for a wide range of virus-related ailments that plague both people and animals. "Recognition of these links means that principles learned from a variety of virus systems now can be used to illuminate many others, allowing integration a...UPCI presents study on discovery of protein that suppresses dendritic cells
...possibilities for the creation of highly efficient vaccines for cancer therapy....Vaccine puts blood-sucking ticks off their food
...ncluding mosquitoes. Now scientists are developing vaccines that prevent ticks from digesting the blood of the...n to controlling tick-borne diseases is to develop vaccines against the ticks and not the microbes that cause the diseases. We have experimental vaccines contai...Fox Chase Cancer Center receives grant to study possible link between measles vaccine and autism
...ent communities concerning the safety of childhood vaccines and their possible link to autistic spectrum disor... Rall points out the remarkable benefits of vaccines for most children and he remains a strong advocate for their use. When children are not vaccinated,...Protein research illustrates how drugs fight malaria, other diseases
...ether, he said. "Malaria is a big issue because no vaccines have worked," he said. "Medications have worked in the past but new ones have to be cheap and they have to be nontoxic. Currently there's not a lot of incentive for drug companies because they think there's no way that they're ever going to recover t...Mathematical analysis could aid flu vaccine selection
...ve proven to be largely accurate and the resulting vaccines are credited with saving millions of lives. In some years, however, the vaccine has not targeted the strain that turned out to be most active. In a paper published in the April 23 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...Need, potential for Hepatitis C vaccine highlighted by Hopkins study
...e acquired. The findings are important because no vaccines exist for preventing hepatitis C in humans althoug...as. "If this is indeed the case, it suggests that vaccines can be used to protect us from the long-term complications of hepatitis C infection, like liver cirr...From nanotechnology to raspberries, Virginia Tech inventions and creations can improve our lives
...ducts (now Wyeth Home Products). The patent is for vaccines to prevent diseases caused by normally encapsulated organisms. The vaccines are produced by genetically modifying key genes that encode for capsule synthesis to produce non-cap...HIV selectively suppresses anti-HIV defense cells
...rking on DNA prime-boost vaccines. These two-part vaccines first prime the immune system with a shot of HIV DNA, then boost the immune response with a harmless viral vector that contains additional HIV genes. The boost enhances the CD8+ response....Hemorrhagic fever viruses examined as potential bioweapons
...g to the Working Group, few effective therapies or vaccines are available to deal with hemorrhagic fever viruses. The antiviral drug ribavirin is recommended only for the treatment of the Arenaviridae and the Bunyaviridae families of viruses. For the Filoviridae (Ebola, Marburg) and the Flaviviridae, the rese...Researchers unravel anthrax genomes
...ifying novel and specific targets for new drugs or vaccines to battle infections from both naturally occurring microbes and potential biological attacks. Genome sequences will also lead to highly specific methods for quickly detecting and identifying different pathogens, a critical need for defense against b...... microbes and also help researchers develop better vaccines or medical treatments to counter the pathogens. Fraser is a member of a National Research Council panel that is drawing up a report about how scientific research can help counter bioterrorism.Genome-based analysis will provide a powerful new tool for...