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New 'adjuvant' could hold future of vaccine development

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists at Oregon State University have developed a new "adjuvant" that could allow the creation of important new vaccines, possibly become a universal vaccine carrier and help medical experts tackle many diseases more ...


Scientists identify genetic link that may neutralize HIV

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created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 0

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 ...





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Immune responses to flu vaccine are diminished in lupus patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

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created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(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

Researchers discover antibody receptor identity, propose renaming immune-system gene

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created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

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created Jun 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

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created Mar 07, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

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created May 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


World-first swine-flu vaccine trial reveals one dose provides 'strong immune response'

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created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

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created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(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

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created May 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 0

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

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created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...



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