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Human antibodies target Marburg, Ebola viruses; 1 step closer to vaccine

Researchers at Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and The Scripps Research Institute, for the first time have shown how human antibodies can neutralize the Marburg virus, a close...

11 March, 2015

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Researchers look to Twitter to better understand vaccine refusal

A Johns Hopkins University computer scientist is part of a team of researchers that has developed a new way to understand vaccine refusal by studying an unlikely resource: Twitter. The researchers will combine Twitter...

3 March, 2015

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7 facts about vaccines that show why they’re one of the most important inventions in human history

There’s a disease spreading right now, a disease that until recently, we’d considered eliminated — something that wasn’t spreading anymore except in places where it was imported from outside the country. But as the...

3 March, 2015

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Research improves the effectiveness of vaccines

According to new research from NC State, vaccines may become more effective than ever before at preventing disease. Since the summer of 2013, Cathy Fromen, a recent Ph.D. graduate from NC State, and her colleagues have...

6 February, 2015

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Scientists develop potential late-stage rabies treatment

“There is an urgent need in many parts of the world for a better rabies treatment,” said pathology professor Zhen Fu. A person bit by a rabid animal has only a finite amount of time to get treated with the...

6 February, 2015

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Disappointment over Ebola vaccine as virus ‘mutates’

Ebola researchers say they are a ‘tad disappointed’ at Ebola vaccine trials as scientists in Guinea warn the virus has mutated. Independent experts said that while the vaccine has been deemed safe, it did not perform as...

2 February, 2015

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Scripps scientists discover new vaccine to help smokers quit

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute announced that they’ve come up with a way to create a more effective nicotine vaccine, which could eventually help people trying to quit smoking from relapsing. In a...

23 January, 2015

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Human mode of responding to HIV vaccine is conserved from monkeys

The antibody response from an HIV vaccine trial in Thailand was made possible by a genetic trait carried over in humans from an ancient ancestry with monkeys and apes, according to a study led by Duke Medicine...

21 January, 2015

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Developing vaccines for insect-borne viruses

Vaccines developed using proteins rather than live viruses can help protect animals and subsequently humans from insect-borne viruses, according to Alan Young, chief scientific officer for Medgene Labs, an animal health...

21 January, 2015

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“Extreme measures” needed to see Ebola vaccine development through: Experts

Developing and bringing to market effective Ebola vaccines requires extreme measures and unprecedented international cooperation, global health experts said. In an interim report on a roadmap for vaccines against the...

19 January, 2015

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