Medical research
Designing antiviral proteins via computer could help halt the next pandemic
As Bill Gates sees it, there are three main threats to our species: nuclear war, climate change and the next global pandemic.
Jun 13, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Is ketamine a panacea for depression?
Researchers have long been intrigued by the antidepressant qualities of the club drug ketamine. Known on the street as "Special K," the drug is taken by partiers for its brief dissociative hallucinogenic effect, but it is ...
May 18, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How immunity to RSV develops in childhood but deteriorates in adults
The leading infectious cause of severe respiratory disease in infants, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), is also a major cause of respiratory illness in the elderly. Approved vaccines do not yet exist, and despite the development ...
Apr 21, 2016
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HIV & AIDS
Outsmarting HIV with vaccine antigens made to order
AIDS vaccine researchers may be one step closer to outwitting HIV, thanks to designer antibodies and antigens made to order at Duke.
Jul 1, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers conduct systematic testing of deimmunized biotherapeutic agents
By establishing protein design algorithms that simultaneously optimize drug candidates for both decreased immunogenic epitope content and high level stability and activity, Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center investigator ...
Jan 28, 2015
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HIV & AIDS
Surprising diversity of antibody family provides clues for HIV vaccine design
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have described how a single family of antibodies that broadly neutralizes different strains of HIV has evolved remarkably diverse structures to attack a vulnerable site ...
Sep 25, 2014
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Medical research
Gamers helping in Ebola research
Months before the recent Ebola outbreak erupted in Western Africa, killing more than a thousand people, scientists at the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design were looking for a way to stop the deadly virus.
Sep 1, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists make advance in cancer research
A protein that has been at the centre of cancer drug design for the last 20 years should not be given up on according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). The most advanced version of αvβ3-integrin ...
Jan 3, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers engineer 'protein switch' to dissect role of cancer's key players
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have "rationally rewired" some of the cell's smallest components to create proteins that can be switched on or off by command. These "protein ...
Apr 10, 2013
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HIV & AIDS
Research deciphers HIV attack plan
(Medical Xpress)—A new study by Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Pennsylvania scientists defines previously unknown properties of transmitted HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. The viruses that successfully ...
Apr 1, 2013
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