News tagged with influenza immunization
Why do some influenza virus subtypes die out?
Every so often we hear about a new strain of influenza virus which has appeared and in some cases may sweep across the globe in a pandemic, much as the H1N1 virus did last year. What happens to the old seasonal viruses? In ...
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How a molecular switch activates the anti-viral innate immune response
When a thief breaks into a bank vault, sensors are activated and the alarm is raised. Cells have their own early-warning system for intruders, and scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) ...
Oct 14, 2011 |
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'Networking' turns up flu viruses with close ties to pandemic of 2009
Scientists using new mathematical and computational techniques have identified six influenza A viruses that have particularly close genetic relationships to the H1N1 "swine" flu virus that swept through the United States ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Avian flu vaccine on the brink
A collaboration between BBSRC and STFC-funded scientists has been using a new form of low energy microscopy to observe how poxviruses interact with components inside live cells. Genetically modified fowlpox ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 10, 2011 |
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A flu vaccine that lasts: Scientists consider prospects for a universal influenza vaccine
The costly, time-consuming process of making, distributing and administering millions of seasonal flu vaccines would become obsolete if researchers could design a vaccine that confers decades-long protection from any flu ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 06, 2010 |
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H1N1 flu virus used new biochemical trick to cause pandemic
(PhysOrg.com) -- The influenza virus, scientists well know, is a crafty, shape-shifting organism, constantly changing form to evade host immune systems and jump from one species, like birds, to another, mammals.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Battle of the bugs leaves humans as collateral damage
It's a tragedy of war that innocent bystanders often get caught in the crossfire. But now scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford have shown how a battle for survival at a ...
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Harnessing the immune system's diagnostic power (w/ Video)
An inexpensive system for earlier disease diagnosis could save innumerable lives. It would also have a profound impact on the nation's healthcare industry, currently buckling under the strain of spiraling ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Young children respond well to recommended swine flu vaccine
The first head to head study of the two H1N1 vaccines used in the UK during the recent pandemic finds that the adjuvanted split virus vaccine induced higher immune response rates in young children, but was associated with ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 28, 2010 |
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Immune evasion common in many viruses, bacteria and parasites is uncommon in M. tuberculosis
Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered that the strategy of "immune evasion" common to many viruses, bacteria and parasites, is uncommon to M. tuberculosis where the antigens remain strikingly unchanged ...
May 23, 2010 |
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New steps toward a universal flu vaccine
Researchers at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine have developed a novel influenza vaccine that could represent the next step towards a universal influenza vaccine eliminating the need for seasonal immunizations. They report their ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 19, 2010 |
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Experimental immune-boosting drug worsens TB in mice
An experimental drug that boosts production of the immune system protein interferon worsens tuberculosis (TB) in mice, according to scientists from the National Institutes of Health. The drug acts indirectly ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Building a better flu vaccine: Add second strain of influenza B
Vaccines likely would work better in protecting children from flu if they included both strains of influenza B instead of just one, Saint Louis University research has found.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Findings could shield humans from influenza virus
A University of Alberta-led research team has discovered an influenza detector gene that could potentially prevent the transmission of the virus to humans.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Social Stress May Enhance The Immune Response To Influenza Virus
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study using mice suggests that a repeated stressful situation that triggers the animals' natural “fight-or-flight” response may actually enhance their ability to fight disease when re-exposed to the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 01, 2010 |
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