New experimental vaccines use viral DNA and proteins to help animals’ immune systems fight the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome. The vaccines stimulate the production of antibody proteins that latch...
A new portable disease-detecting “paper machine” has been developed by a team of researchers at Harvard University. What makes the device special is its low cost and efficiency since the machine can detect cancer...
Findings may lead to novel strategies to control HIV infection Lower levels of cholesterol in certain immune cells–a result of enhanced cholesterol metabolism within those cells–may help explain why some HIV...
Immunologists from Emory University have identified a distinct set of long-lived antibody-producing cells in the human bone marrow that function as an immune archive. The cells keep a catalog of how an adult’s...
Scientists have successfully blocked the Ebola infection in cell-culture experiments, in a critical early step to develop a vaccine for the life-threatening virus. The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, the largest in...
Researchers have started planning for the first clinical trial to test a candidate vaccine to protect against the coronavirus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome. The news follows a study led by Ludwig...
Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the National University of Singapore have determined the structure of a human monoclonal antibody which, in an animal model, strongly neutralizes a type of the potentially lethal...
Researchers from The Scripps Research Institution (TSRI), Harvard, MIT and other institutions made ground-breaking discoveries that has led to a HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) vaccine that could be tested in humans...
A paper to be published this week in the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems presents a mathematical model to study the effects of individual movement on infectious disease spread. “The impact of human...
Researchers have identified two critical mutations allowing the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus to transmit from bats to humans. The findings were published in the most recent edition of the Journal...