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Immune responses to flu vaccine are diminished in lupus patients
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Patients with the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have an increased risk of infection, due to both disturbances in their immune responses and treatment with immunosuppressive drugs. Because morbidity ...
Scientists Find Rare, Potent Antibody to HIV-1
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have for the first time isolated an important antibody in human serum that could potentially play a key role in the design of an AIDS vaccine. The research appears ...
Researchers discover antibody receptor identity, propose renaming immune-system gene
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have uncovered the genetic identity of a cellular receptor for the immune system's first-response antibody, a discovery that sheds new light on ...
Researchers discover new cellular mechanism that will significantly advance vaccine development
Jun 16, 2008 |
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La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) scientists have discovered one for the textbooks. Their finding, reported Friday in the scientific journal Immunity, illuminates a new, previously unknown mechanism in how ...
Pinpoint accuracy: DNA vaccines that home in on DCs are more potent
Mar 07, 2008 |
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One strategy being pursued to develop new vaccines against infectious diseases is DNA vaccination. The idea is that following administration of a DNA vaccine, the body converts the information in the DNA vaccine into a protein ...
New broad-spectrum vaccine to prevent cervical cancer induces strong responses in animals
May 26, 2009 |
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Mice and rabbits immunized with a multimeric-L2 protein vaccine had robust antibody responses and were protected from infection when exposed to human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 four months after vaccination, according to ...
Scientists identify genetic link that may neutralize HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 04, 2008 |
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Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) and the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have identified a gene that may influence the production of antibodies that ...
World-first swine-flu vaccine trial reveals one dose provides 'strong immune response'
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Sep 03, 2009 |
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Results from the first swine-flu vaccine trials taking place in Leicester reveal a strong immune response after just one dose.
Research reveals further progress toward AIDS vaccine
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PHILADELPHIA) Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University are one step closer to developing a vaccine against the AIDS disease.
Study finds unique HIV vaccine formula elicits strong immune responses
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 22, 2008 |
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Today, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. and the University of Massachusetts Medical School report that their unique HIV vaccine formulation was effective in eliciting strong and balanced immune responses in healthy ...
Blocking immune inhibitor improves response to HIV-like virus, prolongs survival in monkeys
Dec 10, 2008 |
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By blocking PD-1 (programmed death-1), an immune receptor molecule known to inhibit the immune response to chronic viral infections, scientists have safely and significantly reduced the plasma viral load and also prolonged ...
One dose of H1N1 vaccine may provide sufficient protection for infants and children
Dec 21, 2009 |
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One dose of vaccine may be effective to protect infants and children and reduce transmission of the H1N1 virus, according to a study in JAMA, published online today because of its public health implications. The study will a ...
Genetic trigger for disease-fighting antibodies discoverd
Jul 16, 2009 |
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A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has identified the specific gene which triggers the body to produce disease-fighting antibodies -- a seminal finding that clarifies the exact molecular ...
Monoclonal antibodies primed to become potent immune weapons against cancer
Mar 20, 2009 |
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New research suggests that monoclonal antibody therapy of cancer can be improved to be much more powerful than it is today, says a researcher at Georgetown University Medical Center's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center ...
Busy Bs: Lymphocyte uses multiple mechanisms to shape immune response
Feb 26, 2009 |
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New research expands our understanding of how a type of immune cell called a B lymphocyte enables the immune system to mount a successful defense against an intestinal parasite. The study, published by Cell Press online in ...
