News tagged with vaccine candidates
Researchers determine how Legionnaires' bacteria proliferate, cause disease
A University of Louisville scientist has determined for the first time how the bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease manipulates our cells to generate the amino acids it needs to grow and cause infection and inflammation ...
Nov 17, 2011 |
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A sweet defense against lethal bacteria
(PhysOrg.com) -- There is now a promising vaccine candidate for combating the pathogen which causes one of the most common and dangerous hospital infections. An international team of scientists from the Max ...
May 31, 2011 |
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Scientists find candidate for new TB vaccine
Scientists have discovered a protein secreted by tuberculosis (TB) bacteria that could be a promising new vaccine candidate, they report today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The protein could also be use ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 18, 2011 |
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New vaccine candidate shows strong potential to prevent highly contagious norovirus
Scientists have shown that an experimental vaccine against the human norovirus – the bug behind about 90 percent of highly contagious nonbacterial illnesses that cause diarrhea and vomiting – can generate a strong ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 15, 2011 |
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Profiling malaria-causing parasites
The majority of fatal cases of malaria are caused by infection with the parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Most at risk are young children and women who are pregnant. A team of researchers, led by Patrick Duffy, at the Nation ...
Feb 07, 2011 |
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New discovery could lead to vaccines for plague and bacterial pneumonias
There is an ongoing battle in the "war on terror" that remains mostly unseen to the public -- a race between scientists working to develop a vaccine to protect against plague and the terrorists who seek to use plague as a ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Could the ingestion of 'modified' starch be a new malaria vaccine strategy?
There is no efficient vaccine against malaria, although nasal and oral vaccination seems to be the most promising and suitable solution in countries where the parasite Plasmodium, which causes the disease, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 23, 2010 |
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MVI, Merck, NYU collaborate to research potential malaria vaccine
Development of a vaccine to prevent the malaria parasite from entering the human liver is the goal of a new collaboration announced today by global leaders in malaria research and vaccine development. The PATH Malaria Vaccine ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Study finds genital herpes vaccine ineffective in women
An experimental vaccine intended to prevent genital herpes disease in women, although generally safe and well-tolerated, proved ineffective when tested in the recently concluded clinical study known as the Herpevac Trial ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 30, 2010 |
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New TB vaccine enters clinical testing
At an international gathering of TB vaccine researchers in Tallinn today, the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation announced it will initiate a clinical trial of an investigational live recombinant tuberculosis vaccine to be ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Aeras and Crucell announce Phase II clinical trial start in Kenya
Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell N.V. and the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation today announced the start of a Phase II clinical trial in infants of the jointly developed tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate, AERAS-402/Crucell ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 22, 2010 |
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World-first vaccine candidate for newborns to help combat deadly rotavirus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian researchers have begun clinical trials of a new vaccine to protect newborn infants against rotavirus, a life-threatening diarrhoeal disease that kills half a million children worldwide each year.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Researcher discovers how new HIV vaccine candidate can control HIV progression
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital have made significant findings about how a new HIV vaccine candidate (Delta 5) can reduce -- and in some cases stop -- HIV progression by ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 19, 2010 |
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World's largest malaria vaccine trial now underway in 7 African countries
A pivotal efficacy trial of RTS,S, the world's most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate, is now underway in seven African countries: Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. The trial, ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 03, 2009 |
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WHO: Swine flu vaccine on track
(AP) -- Swine flu vaccine manufacturers are on track to start delivering the first batches of it in September, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 06, 2009 |
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