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Potential weakness identified in make-up of these deadly agents can immediately yield a sensitive test By screening a library of a billion llama antibodies on live Ebola viruses in the Texas Biomedical Research Institute's highest biocontainment laboratory, scientists in San Antonio have identified a potential weakness in the make-up of these deadly agents that can immediately yield a sensitive test. "Detecting single viral protein components can be challenging, especially at very low...
Online Insurance Marketplace (http://www.onlineinsurancemarketplace.com), announces new blog, “Methods for preventing or treating hepatitis”. (PRWEB) April 04, 2013 Online Insurance Marketplace has released a blog providing methods for preventing or treating various types of hepatitis. The blog explains the risk of hepatitis A, B, C and what people must do in order to protect themselves. Hepatitis A is a viral infection which can be treated without too many complications or hard...
Viruses have historically been classified into one of two types – those with an outer lipid-containing envelope and those without an envelope. For the first time, researchers at the University of North Carolina have discovered that hepatitis A virus, a common cause of enterically-transmitted hepatitis, takes on characteristics of both virus types depending on whether it is in a host or in the environment. "The whole universe of virology is divided into two types of viruses – viruses...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Despite all the scientific evidence that indicates vaccines do not cause autism, about 10 percent of parents still skip getting their children immunized for fear that the science is wrong. A growing number of parents are also forgoing vaccinations for their babies because they feel they are getting “too many shots, too soon.” Many of these parents are subscribing to a false belief that not vaccinating their children is far...
--Study published in Journal of Virology demonstrates GEN-003 capable of eliciting immune responses that provide protection against recurrent disease in preclinical models-- CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Genocea Biosciences Inc., a clinical-stage company pioneering novel T cell vaccines, announced today the publication of new data to support GEN-003, its investigational vaccine for the treatment of HSV-2. The results, which are available today in the print edition...
polyDNA answers new questions on herpes, HSV, herpes virus, genital sores, etc. collected from the public in its March, 2013 survey. Rochester, NY (PRWEB) March 13, 2013 Genital herpes can spread from one area in the body to another via touching active lesions, as well as through oral sex. One survey respondent commented, “I mean I don’t know…can herpes really travel from one spot on your genitals to say, your legs or someplace else on your body? Sometimes I get sores and they’re...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A universal flu vaccine that could offer better protection against both seasonal and pandemic outbreaks of the virus could soon be on the way, thanks to the efforts of researchers who claim that they have discovered a way to predict and possibly halt mutating influenza cells. Katherine Kedzierska, an associate professor at the University of Melbourne’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology in Australia, and colleagues report...
CAMBRIDGE, England, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ImmBio (Immunobiology Ltd), a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative vaccines against serious infectious diseases, today announced that the UK government-backed Biomedical Catalyst has awarded the company approximately GBP0.2 million ($0.3 million) to support pre-clinical development of its pneumococcal vaccine, PnuBioVax(TM), which targets a wide range of strains of the bacteria. This new grant follows the award of...
Research uncovers a virus which infects a host that has a non-standard nuclear genetic code Among eukaryotes with modified nuclear genetic codes, viruses are unknown. Until now it had been believed that the modifications to the genetic code effectively prevented new viral infections. However, researchers have now reported the first example of a virus that can be shown to have crossed the boundary from organisms using the standard genetic code to those with an alternate genetic code....
NIAID Initiates Clinical Trial of STEBVax, a Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B Vaccine GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated BioTherapeutics (IBT) announces the initiation of a Phase 1 clinical trial testing the safety and immunogenicity of its staphylococcal enterotoxin B vaccine "STEBVAX" in healthy adults. This trial, marking the first time a superantigen vaccine has been administered to humans, is designed to enroll 28 individuals. STEBVax is a proprietary,...
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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...
