News tagged with human antibodies

Scientists show why anti-HIV antibodies are ineffective at blocking infection

Some 25 years after the AIDS epidemic spawned a worldwide search for an effective vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), progress in the field seems to have effectively become stalled. The ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

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

S.Korea scientists clone pig for human transplants

South Korean scientists said they have cloned a piglet whose organs were genetically modified to make them more suitable for human transplants.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

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

Novel antibody prevents infection by hepatitis C virus

Taking aim at a leading cause of liver failure in the United States, a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories (MBL) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) has developed a human monoclonal ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | 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

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

Nanoscopic probes can track down and attack cancer cells

A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

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

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

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

'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

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

New broad-spectrum vaccine to prevent cervical cancer induces strong responses in animals

Mice and rabbits immunized with a multimeric-L2 protein vaccine had robust antibody responses and were protected from infection when exposed to human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 four months after vaccination, according to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0