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After rotavirus vaccine, DBT pushing for development of malaria, dengue vaccines

After successfully developing rotavirus vaccine indigenously for the first time in the country, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) is aggressively pushing itself to replicate the success in the case of dengue and...

20 June, 2013

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Discovery points to new approach to fight dengue virus

Researchers have discovered that rising temperature induces key changes in the dengue virus when it enters its human host, and the findings represent a new approach for designing vaccines against the aggressive mosquito...

15 April, 2013

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Dengue vaccine closer to reality, say scientists

Researchers have inched closer to developing a novel therapy using mutated antibodies to protect people from the dengue virus. Scientists, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Koch Institute of Integrative...

10 April, 2013

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Novel method accurately predicts disease outbreaks

A team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has developed a novel method to accurately predict dengue fever outbreaks several weeks before they occur. The new method, known as...

25 March, 2013

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‘Defective’ virus plays major role in spread of disease, UCLA scientists report

Defective viruses, thought for decades to be essentially garbage unrelated to the transmission of normal viruses, now appear able to play an important role in the spread of disease, new research by UCLA life scientists...

12 March, 2013

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NIH-developed candidate dengue vaccine shows promise in early-stage trial

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) developed candidate dengue vaccine which found to be safe and to stimulate a strong immune response in most vaccine recipients. The early-stage clinical trial...

29 January, 2013

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People movement drives dengue virus transmission

To stop the transmission of dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that threatens some 4 billion people worldwide, it’s crucial to focus on people movement, not just on the traditional mosquito control-and-prevention...

14 January, 2013

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Mixed results for dengue vaccine trial

The results of the first trial of the effectiveness of a vaccine for dengue, a sometimes fatal disease endemic throughout most tropical countries, have engendered both enthusiasm and disappointment. The vaccine proved...

12 September, 2012

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WHO releases dengue strategy

The World Health Organization recently released a strategic report in an effort to cut deaths from dengue virus infections in half and overall dengue cases by 25 percent in the next eight years. The Global Strategy for...

10 September, 2012

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Found – human antibody that kills the dengue virus

A team of research scientists in Singapore have uncovered a human antibody that can neutralize and kill the dengue virus within two hours. A way to reproduce this antibody in large quantities has also been identified...

2 July, 2012

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