I more optimistic about aids vaccine point time have been
Gary Nabel of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who led the study, said in a telephone interview.
Two of the antibodies can attach to and neutralize 90 percent of the various mutations of the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, Nabel said.
This is an antibody that evolved after the fact. That is [...]
A major risk is birds infect pigs
A major risk is that the birds would infect pigs, which are suspected mixing vessels for new strains of influenzanotably the ongoing pandemic of H1N1 swine flu, the researchers wrote in the Biomed Central journal BMC Infectious Diseases, available here
What is significant about the work is that for a long time folks thought this was [...]
Finding new flu drugs essential flu viruses mutate
In a paper published in Nature Biotechnology, scientists from Hong Kong and Canada said they had found a chemical nucleozin, which fought off both seasonal flu viruses and the H5N1 in mice as well as in cell culture.
We have now brand-new weapons to combat influenza virus resistant to … antiviral drugs like oseltamivir and zanamivir, [...]
They used small interfering rnas or sirnas
U.S. government researchers and a small Canadian biotech company, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, worked together to develop the new approach, described in the Lancet medical journal on Thursday.
The delivery system is the real key, said Thomas Geisbert of Boston University School of Medicine, who did some of the work while at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute [...]
New strategy may be last shot to get rid of polio
At the World Health Organizations annual meeting of health ministers this week, experts are unveiling what they describe as a new strategy to get rid of the feared disease.
But others say there is little new and that if this effort fails, there are serious questions about whether to continue the campaign should be [...]
Minn. Pigs May Have Tested Positive For Swine Flu
The samples were taken from pigs shown at the Minnesota State Fair between Aug. 26 and Sept. 1 as part of a university research project. Officials expect results next week to confirm whether the pigs were infected with swine flu virus, also known as H1N1.
The pigs did not show signs of sickness and officials said [...]
Swine Flu 6 Months Later: Relief, But Winter Looms
Now that the initial scare over the swine flu has subsided, health officials warn we are not out of danger yet.
“Weve got many, many months ahead of us where we dont know what will happen and we need to take the best steps we can to protect ourselves,” Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers [...]
Study Links Virus to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
That doesnt mean the virus causes chronic fatigue, stressed the research published Thursday in the journal Science.
The team of scientists from the National Cancer Institute and Nevadas Whittemore Peterson Institute said it was possible the virus, named XMRV, was just “a passenger virus” that catches a ride in patients whose immune systems are [...]
Aids Study Flushes Out Hidden Virus, Pointing to Possible Cure
Current anti-HIV drugs reduce the virus to undetectable levels without eradicating it. The virus survives by lying dormant in immune-system cells, where the medicines dont reach them. Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute reported yesterday that they developed a way of luring out these cells in laboratory experiments, an achievement [...]
Deadly Virus Hunters Discover Ebola, Marburg Source In Fruit Bats
After a five-year search in the jungles of Africa, an international team of virus hunters has identified a fruit bat that may be the natural host for both hemorrhage-causing diseases. Also, the viruses are more widespread than previously thought, according to their research, which was accepted this week for publication in the open-access journal BioMed [...]