News tagged with human antibodies

Study finds a weak spot on deadly ebolavirus

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and the US Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have isolated and analyzed an antibody that neutralizes Sudan virus, a major species of ebolavirus ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tests underway for new HIV drug farmed from GM tobacco plants

A clinical trial of a potential Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) drug farmed from genetically modified (GM) tobacco plants has at long last got underway in the United Kingdom. The beginning of the trial ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Malaria parasites use camouflage to trick immune defences of pregnant women

Copenhagen University Hospital and the University of Copenhagen have discovered why malaria parasites are able to hide from the immune defences of expectant mothers, allowing the parasite to attack the placenta. The discovery ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Potential treatment for Chikungunya discovered

The Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), an institute of the Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and VIVALIS, a French biopharmaceutical company, announced today the discovery of two new fully human monoclonal ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Detecting lethal diseases with rust and sand

The next big thing in medical diagnostics could be minutes particles of rust, iron oxide, coated with the material from which sand is formed, silicon dioxide. These magnetic nanoparticles, a mere 29 to 230 nanometers across, ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists advance understanding of food pathogen

Listeria is an opportunistic pathogen that causes brain infection, blood poisoning, abortion and death for about 500 Americans and a number of farm animals each year. But while its harmful strains can be more lethal than ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'New' human adenovirus may not make for good vaccines, after all

In recent years, scientists have studied the possibility of using engineered human adenoviruses as vaccines against diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. In this approach, adenoviruses, which commonly cause respiratory-tract ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

HIV vaccines may induce HIV antibodies in trial participants, can cause false-positive test result

During trials of preventive HIV vaccines, trial participants may develop HIV-related antibody responses that could lead to a positive HIV test by routine antibody detection methods (called vaccine-induced seropositivity/reactivity ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists uncover structure of key protein in common HIV subgroup

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have provided the first-ever glimpse of the structure of a key protein -- gp120 -- found on the surface of a specific subgroup of the human immunodeficiency ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A RANK insider resolving the enigma of the fever chart

Mammals have evolved a complex system for controlling bone remodeling. Babies require calcium for healthy bones and they obtain it from their mother's milk. Nursing mothers release calcium from their bones. Surprisingly, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breakthrough in fight against Hendra virus

(PhysOrg.com) -- There has been a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly Hendra virus following the development of a treatment which shows great potential to save the lives of people who become infected ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

First human gets new antibody aimed at rabies virus

MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School today announced the beginning of a Phase 1 clinical trial, testing the safety and activity of a human monoclonal antibody (MAB) developed to neutralize the rabies ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers induce HIV-neutralizing antibodies that recognize HIV-1 envelope protein, lipids

For the first time, researchers have experimentally induced antibodies that neutralize HIV-1 and simultaneously recognize both HIV-1 envelope protein and lipids. The results were reported by U.S. Military HIV Research Program ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First human gets new antibody aimed at hepatitis C virus

Building upon a series of successful preclinical studies, researchers at MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) today announced the beginning of a Phase 1 clinical trial, testing the safety ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In vitro antibody production enables HIV infection detection in window period -- key to safer blood

Researchers in Israel and Kenya have shown that the contribution of variable degrees of immune suppression, either due to existing chronic infections such as parasitemias and/or nutrition, in different populations may influence ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0