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Research uncovers key difference between our bodies’ fight against viruses and bacteria

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a key difference in the biological mechanisms by which the immune system responds to viral and bacterial pathogens. The study, published in the journal Nature...

15 January, 2014

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New strain of bird flu still harmful after it becomes drug resistant

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai said]that a new strain of avian influenza still has the ability to cause serious illness in humans even after it develops a resistance to antiviral medication. Researchers...

15 January, 2014

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Flu vaccine may work better in women

Women have a stronger immune response than men when given the flu vaccine, new research shows. This may mean that vaccinated women are better protected against catching the flu than vaccinated men, although the new...

10 January, 2014

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New vaccine may eliminate HIV completely

Finnish company FIT Biotech might have just developed an extremely effective treatment for HIV, a vaccine designed to “lower the viral load of current HIV patients.” According to Finnish news outlet Yle...

10 January, 2014

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The vaccination effect: 100 million cases of contagious disease prevented

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...

7 January, 2014

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Oral cholera vaccine ‘offers protection for five years’

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...

7 January, 2014

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Researchers provide new insights into how common cold virus infects

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...

7 January, 2014

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Gladstone Institute researchers provide insight in fight against HIV/AIDS

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...

7 January, 2014

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Building better Malaria vaccine possible through mixing right cocktail

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...

5 January, 2014

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HIV cure: Spanish researchers to begin vaccine trial in 2014; UK scientists test cure with results in 2017

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...

27 December, 2013

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