News tagged with encephalitis
New effort probes how two groups of viruses cause disease
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University is leading a team of researchers in a federally funded effort aimed ultimately at developing better vaccines and antiviral drugs against two types of disease-causing viruses ...
First human gets new antibody aimed at rabies virus
Sep 30, 2009 |
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MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School today announced the beginning of a Phase 1 clinical trial, testing the safety and activity of a human monoclonal antibody (MAB) developed to neutralize the rabies ...
Do Chicago’s suburbs hold the key to understanding West Nile virus?
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When Tony Goldberg is not whacking through the brush of central Africa, one of the world's great cauldrons of emerging human and animal disease, he is scouring another disease hot spot: the ...
Vaccine slows progression of skeletal muscle disorder
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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A potential vaccine for Alzheimer's disease also has been shown in mice to slow the weakening of muscles associated with inclusion body myositis, a disorder that affects the elderly.
Drug blocks two of world's deadliest emerging viruses
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Two highly lethal viruses that have emerged in recent outbreaks are susceptible to chloroquine, an established drug used to prevent and treat malaria, according to a new basic science study by researchers at Weill Cornell ...
