Vaccination programs for children have prevented more than 100 million cases of serious contagious disease in the United States since 1924, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The...
Cholera can now be prevented effectively for five years with an oral vaccine, a clinical trial in India has shown. Details of the trial are to be published in the December issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The...
On average, each of us catches a cold two to three times a year. However, how the common cold virus actually infects us is only partly understood. Researchers from the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the Medical...
Research led by scientists at the Gladstone Institutes has identified the precise chain of molecular events in the human body that drives the death of most of the immune system’s CD4 T cells as an HIV infection leads to...
The study, led by Sheetij Dutta, from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, USA, and colleagues, focused on a protein called AMA1 needed by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite to invade blood cells and cause...
Spanish researchers and UK scientists are currently preparing for the clinical trials of a possible vaccine and cure against AIDS-causing HIV. Spanish experts believe the vaccine will be therapeutic while UK scientists...
Each small step that science takes to discover how viruses infect cells is always very valuable to researchers and society, since it provides relevant information to fight infections. However, the recent discovery made...
Testing the efficacy of vaccines in clinical trials takes years, even decades. Yet, challenging infections like HIV, malaria and dengue are striking today. To speed up vaccine testing, scientists at the Emory Vaccine...
In 1987, two medical researchers, Anthony Fauci and Cliff Lane, conducted the first clinical trial of an AIDS vaccine. They took the envelope that surrounds the virus and simply injected it into study participants...
The need to let helpful microbes do their work weakens a baby’s immune system, a problem challenging an Israeli scientist. That babies are especially sensitive to bacterial infections isn’t news. According to the World...