NIAID launches program to improve medical tools against emerging infectious diseases
... however, will yield new knowledge about antigenic epitopes from a wide variety of microbes, including agents ...te, La Jolla, CA, Kim Janda, Ph.D. Focus: antibody epitopes of botulinum toxin. Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, William Kwok, Ph.D....NIH awards OHSU $4 million biodefense contract to study tuberculosis
...ble form of the bacteria to find the cell markers, epitopes and antigens that tell the body when a bacteria ha...nother form of immune response cell - antigens and epitopes that researchers can access when working on vaccine development. "This database will help us speed u...Advances in prevention and treatment research hold promise for 'pipeline'
...offmann said. Virus particles displaying linear epitopes from papillomavirus structural proteins: next generation vaccines to prevent papillomavirus-associated cancers: Abstract No. 2241 Plant viruses show promise as carriers for new low-cost, antiviral vaccinations against human papillomaviruses (HPV) t...Cancer vaccine using low affinity epitopes proves successful in mice
...ues from Institut Gustave Roussy, France, examined epitopes (parts of antigen molecules) derived from murine t...Journal of Clinical Investigation they report that epitopes with a low affinity for HLA class I molecules, molecules which bind and present antigens to T cells ...Understanding the autoimmune response in type 1 diabetes
...el assay to examine T cell responses to a panel of epitopes naturally expressed by islet cells and demonstrate...ifferentiation and maturation in reaction to these epitopes in T1DM patients (in whom autoimmunity develops) and normal individuals (in whom autoimmunity is arr......ulation will be a DNA-based vaccine expressing HIV epitopes specifically selected to induce immune responses in most of the world's population. The same HIV epitopes expressed in a modified vaccinia Ankara virus (MVA) vector will boost the priming DNA immunization. ...