Sentences with phrase «zika vaccine design»
«This is an encouraging first step in Zika vaccine design and pre-clinical testing.
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Now that boost in Zika - linked Guillain (GBS) is stoking concerns that a vaccine designed to protect patients against Zika could inadvertently provoke more cases of the autoimmune condition.
«The emergence of Zika virus has further complicated vaccine design, and emphasizes the need to better understand the molecular mechanisms that underpin protective antibody responses.»
«Having the structure of the full - length Zika NS1 provides new information that can help guide the design of a potential vaccine or antiviral drugs,» said senior author Janet Smith, director of the Center for Structural Biology at the U-M Life Sciences Institute, where her lab is located, and professor of biological chemistry at the U-M Medical School.
Ferguson's team is calling for trials of Zika treatments and vaccines to be designed so that even if the epidemic burns out, they are ready to kick in quickly should Zika roar back again.
This is a very exciting discovery as it offers numerous possibilities of designing therapies and vaccines to target these exposed surfaces to treat dengue as well as other related viruses such as Zika and chikungunya.
In just the last 6 years the EID outbreaks of MERS, Ebola, Zika, CHIKV as examples have underscored the importance of rapid vaccine development and deployment capabilities to meet EID challenges, as well as growing appreciation for creativity and flexibility in clinical trial design.
«This is a straightforward study of the use of two established vaccine technologies in an attempt to design and test new Zika vaccines.
Using enhanced DNA technology, the lab has designed DNA vaccines that drive immune responses in prophylactic or therapeutic settings against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Dengue (DV), Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, and Zika Virus (ZV).