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LA BioMed develops promising vaccine to combat MRSA

Grappling with one of the world’s deadliest contagions for more than a decade without a breakthrough, the country’s leading infectious disease researchers have high hopes for a vaccine developed locally. The NDV-3...

12 January, 2015

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The link between imperfect vaccines and disease

New mathematical models explore why some vaccines are more effective than others. A new mathematical model that tests the effectiveness of different vaccine types could help explain why certain diseases are still...

26 December, 2014

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Antibodies discovery could lead to universal dengue vaccine

A major new class of antibodies that can make the four different types of dengue virus (DENV) non-infectious has been discovered by a group of international researchers, including from the University of Melbourne. The...

17 December, 2014

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Herpes virus rearranges telomeres to improve viral replication

A team of scientists, led by researchers at The Wistar Institute, has found that an infection with herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) causes rearrangements in telomeres, small stretches of DNA that serve as protective ends...

17 December, 2014

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Injectable, 3D vaccines may fight cancer and infectious diseases

Scientists may have found a way to create injectable, 3D vaccines that could help fight cancer. They’ve shown a non-surgical injection of programmable biomaterial that spontaneously assembles in vivo into a 3D...

12 December, 2014

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Lapses in infection control associated with spread of severe respiratory virus MERS, according to study

Little is known about the often fatal virus known as Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), but researchers have identified gaps in infection control as a major culprit in all eleven published cases...

9 December, 2014

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Ebola virus detected in semen three months after symptoms end

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday that the semen of men recovering from Ebola can contain the deadly virus up to three months after the symptoms disappear. Four studies on the persistence of Ebola...

3 December, 2014

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First Ebola vaccination trial in Mali promising

The first Ebola vaccination trial in Mali is looking bright as volunteers have responded positively to the vaccines, an infectologist in Mali said Thursday. “We know that after two weeks they’re starting to...

7 November, 2014

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Global agency needed for battling infectious diseases

Ebola underlines the urgent need for a new way of responding to global epidemics In our hyper-connected world, we can no longer dismiss certain threats as being “over there”. Local phenomena can have global...

29 October, 2014

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Drones help show how environmental changes affect the spread of infectious diseases

Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can collect detailed information in real time at relatively low cost for ecological research. In a new Opinion piece published in the Cell Press journal Trends in Parasitology...

29 October, 2014

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