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New vaccine-design approach targets HIV and other fast-mutating viruses

A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has unveiled a new technique for vaccine design that could be particularly useful against ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 28, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Knowing origin of broadly neutralizing antibodies could aid universal flu vaccine design

National Institutes of Health scientists have identified how a kind of immature immune cell responds to a part of influenza virus and have traced the path those cells take to generate antibodies that can neutralize a wide ...

Medical research created Aug 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Toward 'universal' vaccine: Scientists describe antibodies that protect against large variety of flu viruses

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and Crucell Vaccine Institute in the Netherlands describes three human antibodies that provide broad protection against Influenza B virus strains. ...

Medical research created Aug 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccination produces antibodies against multiple flu strains

The pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies in vaccinated individuals not only against the H1N1 virus, but also against other influenza virus strains including H5N1 and H3N2. This discovery adds an important new ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Universal' vaccines could finally allow for wide-scale flu prevention

An emerging class of long-lasting flu vaccines could do more than just save people the trouble of an annual flu shot.

Medical research created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Vaccine against epidemic gastroenteritis being tested

(Medical Xpress) -- A new vaccine is being tested in the US that may protect against the norovirus, which causes "stomach flu" or acute viral gastroenteritis, that can occur in confined living settings such as cruise ships, ...

Medications created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Study identifies influenza viruses circulating in pigs and birds that could pose a risk to humans

In the summer of 1968, a new strain of influenza appeared in Hong Kong. This strain, known as H3N2, spread around the globe and eventually killed an estimated 1 million people.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New bird flu strain seen adapting to mammals, humans

A genetic analysis of the avian flu virus responsible for at least nine human deaths in China portrays a virus evolving to adapt to human cells, raising concern about its potential to spark a new global flu pandemic.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Vaccine adjuvant uses host DNA to boost pathogen recognition

Aluminum salts, or alum, have been injected into billions of people as an adjuvant to make vaccines more effective. No one knows, however, how they boost the immune response. In the March 19, 2013, issue of the Proceedings of ...

Medical research created Apr 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop universal flu vaccine: New technology could become available to consumers within a decade

(Medical Xpress)—Flu is unpredictable. Influenza viruses are constantly changing—from one season to the next or even within the course of a flu season—making vaccine development difficult.

Medical research created Apr 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research reveals protective properties of influenza vaccines

(Medical Xpress)—Collaborating scientists from Nationwide Children's Hospital, Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified an important mechanism for stimulating protective ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

H1N1 flu jab linked to small risk of nervous disorder

Vaccination in the United States against H1N1 "swine" flu, which swept the world in 2009-10, carried a small but tolerable risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disorder that can cause muscle weakness or temporary paralysis, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Prediction of seasonal flu strains improves chances of universal vaccine

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers have determined a way to predict and protect against new strains of the flu virus, in the hope of improving immunity against the disease.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover how the flu virus tells time

Scientists have discovered that that the flu virus can essentially tell time, thereby giving scientists the ability to reset the virus' clock and combat it in more effective ways. According to researchers at the Icahn School ...

Medical research created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Large study confirms H1N1 flu shots safe for pregnant women

Norwegian pregnant women who received a vaccine against the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus showed no increased risk of pregnancy loss, while pregnant women who experienced influenza during pregnancy had an increased risk of miscarriages ...

Medications created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0