http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Early results of a trial to treat leukaemia with a WT1 DNA vaccine, has shown robust vaccine-specific antibody responses in all vaccinated patients evaluated to date. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-positive-early-results-clinical-trial.html Cancer Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:50:06 EST news274100504 New and increasingly sophisticated vaccines are taking aim at a broad range of disease-causing pathogens, targeting them with greater effectiveness at lower cost and with improved measures to ensure safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dna-vaccine-technology-poised-safe.html Medical research Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:00:21 EST news271337228 A vaccine against cervical cancer, being developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Blue Bell, Pa., produced positive results in a small sample of 18 women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-cervical-cancer-vaccine.html Cancer Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:50:01 EST news269257488 Army scientists and industry collaborators have successfully protected laboratory animals from lethal hantavirus disease using a novel approach that combines DNA vaccines and duck eggs. The work appears in a recent edition of the online scientific journal PLoS ONE, published by the Public Library of Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-dna-vaccine-duck-eggs-hantavirus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 23 May 2012 11:58:18 EST news256993040 In a report on a preclinical investigation titled "Flagellin Enhances Saliva IgA Response and Protection of Anti-caries DNA Vaccine," lead author Wei Shi, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team of researchers demonstrate that anti-caries DNA vaccines, including pGJA-P/VAX, are promising for preventing dental caries. However, challenges remain because of the low immunogenicity of DNA vaccines. This study is published in the Journal of Dental Research, the official publication of the International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-iadraadr-publish-dental-caries-vaccine.html Other Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:39:59 EST news238771528 The immune response to an H5N1 avian influenza vaccine was greatly enhanced in healthy adults if they were first primed with a DNA vaccine expressing a gene for a key H5N1 protein, researchers say. Their report describes results from two clinical studies conducted by researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-priming-dna-vaccine-avian-flu.html Medical research Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:12:11 EST news236887907