News tagged with vaccination strategy


Researchers develop and test new anti-cancer vaccine

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed and tested in mice a synthetic vaccine and found it effective in killing human papillomavirus-derived cancer, a virus linked to cervical cancers among others. The research ...

Cancer created Jun 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Evolution in the antibody factory: How immune cells are able to advance their own evolution

Immune system B cells play a crucial role in the defence of pathogens; when they detect such an intruder, they produce antibodies that help to combat the enemy. They concurrently and continuously improve ...

Immunology created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vaccination strategy may hold key to ridding HIV infection from immune system

Using human immune system cells in the lab, AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins have figured out a way to kill off latent forms of HIV that hide in infected T cells long after antiretroviral therapy has successfully stalled viral ...

Immunology created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Insights into the immune system, from the fates of individual T cells

By charting the differing fates of individual T cells, researchers have shown that previously unpredictable aspects of the adaptive immune response can be effectively modeled. The crucial question: What determines ...

Medical research created Mar 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Doctors and nurses key to preventing vaccine refusal outbreaks

(Medical Xpress) -- Well-informed doctors and nurses are the key to preventing parents refusing childhood immunisations because of vaccine scare campaigns, a University of Sydney expert writes in the latest edition of the ...

Health created May 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New model for possible malaria vaccination suggests mass vaccination for low transmission areas

In the event that a vaccine for the prevention of malaria is licensed and ready for use (such as the research malaria vaccine RTS,S, which currently looks promising), distributing and giving the vaccine to three-month old ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1