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Danbury scientists link common virus to cancer

Local medical scientists have found one of the most common viruses in the human body is linked to poor outcomes in patients with most kinds of early-stage cancers. Scientists at the Western Connecticut Health Network...

22 September, 2015

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Flu vaccine shows promise in combating all strains

Scientists from the Vaccine Research Center and the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, have developed a new flu vaccination that is seen as a step toward combating all flu...

22 September, 2015

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First self-injectable HIV antibody may prevent virus transmission

The first self-injectable HIV antibody, PRO 140, has a 98 percent success rate in reducing the virus in HIV patients’ blood, according to results released from a Phase 2b clinical trial of the drug. PRO 140 works by...

11 August, 2015

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New vaccine approach to fight dengue

US researchers have devised an entirely new approach to vaccines – creating immunity against the dengue virus without vaccination. The study demonstrated that animals injected with synthetic DNA engineered to...

11 August, 2015

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Experimental MERS vaccine battles virus in mice and monkeys

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...

31 July, 2015

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HIV vaccine could be tested in humans sooner than expected

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...

2 July, 2015

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Researchers identify two critical mutations that allow MERS virus to transmit from bats to humans

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...

26 June, 2015

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Scientists identify the skin immune cells targeted by the dengue virus

Cells in the skin immune system that act as ‘gateways’ enabling the dengue virus to spread through the body have been identified by A*STAR researchers. Dengue is a global health concern that is growing at an...

25 June, 2015

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NIAID announces milestone achievement in Ebola vaccine study

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a branch of the National Institutes of Health, recently announced that an Ebola vaccine study has made a milestone achievement by enrolling 1,500...

15 June, 2015

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Treating patient, not virus, could beat many flu strains at once

A radical new approach to fighting influenza could not only save countless lives each year, it could pave the way for other drugs in the future. Called Vasculotide, it represents a paradigm shift in the thinking of...

12 June, 2015

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