News tagged with rabies virus

Virus attacks childhood cancers

Researchers from Yale University are looking to a virus from the same family as the rabies virus to fight a form of cancer primarily found in children and young adults. They report their findings in the September 2011 issue ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Single vaccines to protect against both rabies and Ebola

Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University, among other institutions, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have developed single vaccines to protest against both rabies and ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

First death by vampire bat in US

A teenager from Mexico became the first person in the United States to die after being bitten by a vampire bat and infected with rabies, US health authorities said on Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hibernation keeps rabies going in bats

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, infectious disease biologist Dylan George from Colorado State University reports that a bat’s hibernation is wha ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Researchers to study anthropogenic drivers of rabies in vampire bats

(PhysOrg.com) -- Throughout Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina, Common vampire bats transmit infectious diseases such as rabies to animals and humans. Factors that influence the spread of disease within bat populations ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New treatment for rabies advances after successful phase 1 trial in India

With the potential to save tens of thousands of lives each year, a new cost-effective rabies therapy developed by MassBiologics at the University of Massachusetts and the Serum Institute of India took an important step forward ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First human gets new antibody aimed at rabies virus

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 ...

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created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Hope for a rabies eradication strategy in Africa

Most of the rabies virus circulating in dogs in western and central Africa comes from a common ancestor introduced to the continent around 200 years ago, probably by European colonialists. In the current issue of Journal of ...

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created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Evolution of new brain area enables complex movements

A new area of the cerebral cortex has evolved to enable man and higher primates to pick up small objects and deftly use tools, according to neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Pittsburgh's ...

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created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0