(Arizona State University) One of the major challenges in modern vaccinology is to engineer vectors that are highly infectious, yet don’t cause illness. Roy Curtiss, an investigator of vaccines and infectious diseases at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, has pursued these goals for 30 years. In his most recent study, published recently in the Proceedings [...]
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(Medical College of Georgia) The number of people who need colonoscopies to screen for colorectal cancer is outpacing the number of endoscopists available to perform them, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Properly trained primary-care physicians — internists, family medicine physicians, obstetricians and gynecologists and general practitioners — can perform the test as safely and [...]
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(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine feels that the social networking website, Facebook, would be well-advised to review its policy banning photographs of breastfeeding mothers.
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(University of Houston) Cloaked in the clouds of emissions and exhaust that hang over the city are clues that lead back to the polluting culprits, and a research team led by the University of Houston is hot on their trails.
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(Florida State University) This year marks the 200th birthday of pioneering naturalist Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book “The Origin of Species,” truly a landmark work that changed the world. Celebrations and tributes, both large and small, are scheduled around the globe this year, and many are already under [...]
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(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Chicago researchers report the development of a new mouse model for food allergy that mimics symptoms generated during a human allergic reaction to peanuts. The animal model provides a new research tool that will be invaluable in furthering the understanding of the causes of peanut and other food [...]
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(University of Montreal) Published today in the prestigious journal Nature Immunology, this study by Dr. Martin Guimond is likely to have a major impact on patients who undergo intensive chemotherapy, receive bone marrow transplants or become infected with HIV.
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While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug has quickened review and approval of new medicines, the complex nature of diseases for which new therapeutics are being developed has resulted in longer clinical development times, according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.
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Molecules of sugar sitting on the surface of cancer cells are keys to the development of a new vaccine aimed at both treating and stopping the spread of certain types of cancers called carcinomas, which include prostate, breast, ovarian and lung, among others.
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A preclinical study found a new nasal spray vaccine to provide complete protection against a major botulism toxin, according to a study published today in the Nature journal Gene Therapy .
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