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Army scientists and industry collaborators have successfully protected laboratory animals from lethal hantavirus disease using a novel approach that combines DNA vaccines and duck eggs. The work appears in a recent edition of the online scientific journal PLoS ONE, published by the Public Library of Science. According to first author Jay W. Hooper of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), this is the first time that the DNA vaccine/duck egg system has...
“UCLA IMPACT 2012” opens up the world of HIV research to creatives and activists for the first time. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 17, 2012 CHIPTS, the Center for HIV Identification Prevention and Treatment Services, at UCLA will begin taking entries for their “UCLA IMPACT 2012” contest on May 15th. This contest encourages submissions from all HIV/AIDS researchers, advocates, and supporters around the world. In an attempt to change the traditional research based format, CHIPTS hopes...
BANGKOK, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) is collaborating with the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center (TRCARC) to strengthen HIV prevention effort and to make Bangkok the world's first city to achieve "Zero New HIV Infections" by 2015. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) As part of this initiative, IBM is donating business analytics software and technology expertise to enable the Center to design more effective intervention strategies to...
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Skyrocketing rates of HIV among African Americans and Latinos in the Bay Area will take center stage when national and local leaders in HIV policy convene in San Francisco on May 23-24 for a conference on the unequal burden of HIV/AIDS among communities of color, sexual minorities and the poor. Sponsored by the Washington-based Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, the meeting comes at a time when HIV infection among African...
ATLANTA, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTCQB/OTCBB: GOVX), a biotechnology company that creates, develops and tests innovative HIV/AIDS vaccines, announced its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and provided a business update. "We are delighted with recent developments that have strengthened and advanced our HIV/AIDS vaccine program," said Chairman of the Board David Dodd. "Our Phase 1/2 therapeutic vaccine trial continues to enroll...
Truvada alone not sufficient, given adherence and other challenges A drug that has been shown to prevent HIV infection in a significant number of cases must be combined with behavioral approaches if the U.S. health care establishment is to succeed in reducing the spread of the virus, according to the American Psychological Association. "Exclusive reliance on a drug to prevent HIV or any sexually transmitted disease could actually result in a worse outcome if those at risk don't...
Vaccine testing and development is an extremely lengthy and complex process that costs billions of dollars every year. In an effort to dramatically improve the speed and success of vaccine research and development, researchers have created an innovative biomimetic model of the human immune system known as the MIMIC® system. An article in the inaugural issue of Disruptive Science and Technology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., describes this artificial human...
A panel of health experts have backed a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people for the first time. The U.S. panel recommended that regulators approve Truvada for use by people considered at high risk of contracting the AIDS virus. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not required to follow the panel's advice, but typically is found to do so. Advocates who approve of the panel's advice say that it could be a big milestone in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The FDA...
Sunday, May 20, Minnehaha Park MINNEAPOLIS, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sunday, May 20, join the Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP) at Minnehaha Park for the 25th Year of the Minnesota AIDS Walk. Donations to the AIDS Walk help the Minnesota AIDS Project prevent new HIV infections and keep people living with HIV in Minnesota healthy. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120511/DC05475) For 25 years, the Minnesota AIDS Walk has raised funds for the Minnesota AIDS...
New research shines some light on a potential point of weakness in the fight against cancer: One in six are caused by treatable or preventable infections. These new estimates say nearly 2 million cases globally could have been prevented if the infections had been stopped sooner. Publishing the findings in Lancet Oncology, the researchers who conducted the review looked at incidence rates for 27 cancers in more than 180 countries. According to their findings, there are 4 main infections...
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Virology Journal is an open-access peer-reviewed medical journal published by BioMed Central. It covers research related to viruses and the prevention of viral infection (including vaccination, the use of antiviral agents, and gene therapy). Virology Journal was established in 2004 and is edited by Robert F. Garry. The goal of the journal is to cover rapid communications amongst virologists. The journal has not been published without controversy, however. On 21, July 2010, the journal...
Virology is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering basic research into viruses affecting animals, plants, bacteria and fungi. It includes the molecular biology, structure, assembly, pathogenesis, immunity and interactions viruses have with the host cell. The journal also covers aspects of control and prevention, as well as viral vectors and gene therapy. Virology was established in 1955 and is now published bi-weekly by the Academic Press imprint of Elsevier. Subscribers of Virology...
A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates inside the living cells of organisms. It is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Most are too small to be seen by anything but a microscope and they infect all organisms from animals to plants to bacteria. The first one discovered was the tobacco virus in 1898. Since then around 5,000 viruses have been described in detail although there are millions of different types. They are found in...
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a virus in the family Rhabdoviridae. Rabies is in the same family. VSV infects insects and animals and is important to farmers in certain regions of the world where it can infect cattle. It is a common laboratory virus used for studying the Rhabdoviridae family and viral evolution. It is the prototypic member of the vesiculovirus genera of the Rhabdovirus family. The genome is a single molecule of negative-sense RNA that encodes five major proteins.
Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is a positive-sense single stranded RNA virus that infects plants, namely tobacco and other members of the family Solanaceae. It causes characteristic patterns on the leaves. In 1930 it was determined that an infectious agent was determined to be a virus. Adolf Mayer first described the disease in 1883. The disease can be transferred between plants similar to bacterial infections. Dimitri Ivanovski was the first to show that infected sap remained infectious even...
