Studies in mice have demonstrated that vaccinations with the amyloid beta protein (believed to be a major AD contributor) to produce AƒÒ antibodies can slow disease progression and improve cognitive f...
Life Sciences |The vaccinia virus has a problem: it is a giant among viruses and needs a special strategy in order to infiltrate a cell and reproduce. Professor Ari Helenius and Postdoc Jason Mercer from ETH Zurich&...
Life Sciences |The findings appear online in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.This is the first effort to screen Ugandan red colobus monkeys for orthopoxviruses, said Tony Goldberg, a professor of ve...
Life Sciences |Having high-resolution detail of this protein on hand will speed the discovery of new drugs to combat inflammation and immune diseases such as atherosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, the researchers...
Studies and Analyses |Scientists at Saint Louis University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham have uncovered important new information about a key protein that allows viruses such as smallpox to replicate and wrea...
Life Sciences |The study's authors say the finding will help efforts to design new vaccines for use against cowpox, monkeypox and, if it ever became a concern again, smallpox. Researchers working on the next ge...
Life Sciences |Over 90 per cent of the subjects in the phase 1 trials developed an immune response to HIV. ”Never has such a good result been seen with a vaccine of this type,” says Professor Eric Sandström, Chief P...
Health and Medicine |Results from a new study indicate that hybrid laboratory antibodies derived from chimpanzees and humans may provide a potentially safe and effective way to treat the serious complications ...
Life Sciences |Emerging relationships between the two viruses could one day lead to a vaccine for human AIDS A University of Florida researcher has discovered an unexpected link between the ...
Health and Medicine |Findings published in this months issue of Virology An outbreak of 72 cases of monkeypox in the United States during the summer of 2003 didnt produce a single fa...
Life Sciences |May offer new approach to smallpox treatment In a finding that represents an entirely new approach to treating viral diseases such as smallpox, scientists at Dana-Farber C...
Life Sciences |A mild, experimental smallpox vaccine known as modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) is nearly as effective as the standard smallpox vaccine in protecting monkeys against monkeypox, a study by researc...
Health and Medicine |Researchers suspect that the number of people infected during the recent Midwest outbreak may be higher than first reported Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are...
Studies and Analyses |New drug could soon thwart smallpox outbreaks An anti-smallpox pill could be on the way if a new compound that shows promise in animal tests proves safe and effective in humans....
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