News tagged with chikungunya virus


Research reveals how antibodies neutralize mosquito-borne virus

Researchers have learned the precise structure of the mosquito-transmitted chikungunya virus pathogen while it is bound to antibodies, showing how the infection is likely neutralized.

Medical research created Apr 02, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop prototype chikungunya vaccine

Wageningen University in the Netherlands has developed a prototype vaccine against chikungunya in a joint effort with the Erasmus Medical Centre and TI Pharma. This prototype may hopefully lead to the first working vaccine ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Promising new method for next-generation live-attenuated viral vaccines against Chikungunya virus

Researchers have successfully applied a novel method of vaccine creation for Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) using a technique called large scale random codon re-encoding. Using this approach, a group from the UMR_D 190, Emerging ...

Medical research created Feb 21, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Peptide found to induce autophagy resulting in defense against diseases

(Medical Xpress)—A multi-disciplined team of researchers from the United States and The Netherlands has found that introducing a certain type of peptide into mice cells induces autophagy, which in turn helps in fighting ...

Medical research created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Investigation of Chikungunya virus yields two new antigens for vaccine development

Chikungunya virus has caused epidemics in Africa, Asia and recently Europe. It is transmitted to humans by Aedes (see image), a genus of mosquitoes that also transmit dengue fever. Symptoms of a Chikungunya ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jul 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exploiting the early immune response in Chikungunya fever promises to provide protection

(Medical Xpress) -- Chikungunya fever is a viral disease that has re-emerged to cause epidemics in the Pacific region within the last decade. It is caused by the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), which is transmitted ...

Immunology created Jul 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breakthroughs in Chikugunya research spell new hope for better treatment and protection

Recent breakthroughs in Chikungunya research spearheaded by scientists at A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have made great strides in the battle against the infectious disease. Working in close collaborations ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers create new experimental vaccine against chikungunya virus

Researchers have developed a new candidate vaccine to protect against chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen that produces an intensely painful and often chronic arthritic disease that has stricken millions of people ...

Medications created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Anatomy of an outbreak: Researchers probe genetics of chikungunya virus

What causes a virus to suddenly begin infecting large numbers of people?

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast