Sentences with phrase «against virus diseases»

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The notion that antisense oligonucleotides might inhibit the progression of genetic diseases or tumor - causing viruses dates back to the late 1970s, when legendary molecular biologist Paul Zamecnik and colleague Mary Stephenson demonstrated the method's viability against the Rous sarcoma virus.

The Centers for Disease Control put out a warning last week that anyone traveling to Brazil should get vaccinated against the virus.

Man had made enormous strides in discovering the causes of disease, and is still fighting a long - drawn - out battle against such things as the incredibly minute viruses, and the apparently arbitrary cell - degeneration known as cancer.

One of these, IgA, which is present in highest amounts in the first few days of life, contains many antibodies against viruses, bacteria and other disease - causing organisms.

Mothers can communicate with donors directly and request blood test results to help protect against the spread of disease and viruses.

CHICKENPOX COMMON AMONG CHILDREN DESPITE VACCINE The highly contagious varicella - zoster virus (VZV), commonly known as chickenpox, often affects children under age 12 and sometimes even after they have been vaccinated against the disease, Oneida County Health Department officials warned today following reports of an outbreak in Herkimer County.

The company has begun human testing of its mRNA drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer, and for vaccines against the flu, Zika, and chikungunya viruses.

When Thomas Monath, an expert on vaccines combating mosquito - borne diseases, thinks about developing an inoculation against Zika virus, he has a major concern: Guillain — Barré syndrome.

Understanding this critical step of Zika virus replication will help researchers develop antiretroviral drugs against this spreading disease afflicting the entire globe.

Remarkably, the researchers also found that blocking this protein in mice protected them from the lethal effects of dengue virus infection, an important finding given that an effective vaccine against dengue has remained elusive, partly because there are four serotypes of the virus that cause disease.

Because survivors of an Ebola infection would typically have produced effective antibodies against the virus (otherwise they wouldn't have survived), transfusions of their blood into a newly infected individual may help that person survive the often fatal disease.

Despite years of trying, scientists still haven't created an HIV vaccine that can protect people against the virus, says Alan Aderem, a biologist at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle.

«We observed rapid and durable protective immunity without adverse events, and so we think this candidate vaccine represents a promising strategy for the global fight against Zika virus,» said senior author Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Disease at Penn. «We hope to start clinical trials in 12 to 18 months.»

Scientists at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute have identified natural human antibodies against the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a step toward developing treatments for the newly emerging and often - fatal disease..

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say a new candidate vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) made with a weakened version of the virus shows great promise at fighting the disease, the leading cause of hospitalization for children under the age of one in the U.S.

An experimental drug that shuts down construction of virus - making factories could become a new weapon against MERS and similar respiratory diseases.

The struggle in Brazil shows that the fight against the Zika virus, and against other diseases transmitted by Ae.

Historically, vaccines against viral diseases have used live - attenuated (weakened) viruses or inactivated whole viruses to induce protective immune responses.

«This drug was not developed as an alternative to vaccination but rather as an additional weapon in our arsenal against the virus that may enable us to improve disease management and rapidly silence outbreaks,» he says.

«Despite the delay in airborne precaution implementation, we suspect that high hand hygiene compliance, as a result of continuous implementation of proactive control measures against various viruses and multidrug - resistant organisms, protected frontline healthcare workers against many challenges of emerging infectious diseases.»

One of the vaccines, which is based on a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus expressing the glycoprotein of the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus (VSV - ZEBOV), was recently shown to be extremely effective with 100 per cent efficacy against the lethal Ebola virus disease in WHO - funded studies carried out in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

«We need to do everything we can to find effective drugs against the Zika virus, as changes in travel and climate have caused more tropical diseases to move into new parts of the globe,» said Kao, who has also spent 15 years studying the virus that causes hepatitis C.

«Drugs approved to treat hepatitis C and compounds in development to treat other viral diseases are prime candidates to use against the Zika virus,» Kao said.

«Thus, we can develop targeted strategies against disease - causing viruses.»

This goal of this study, led by Geisbert and Ian MacLachlan, executive vice president and chief technical officer of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, was to determine whether it is possible to protect animals against a lethal MARV - Angola infection when treatment was started at a point when animals have detectable levels of the virus in their system and show the first clinical signs of disease.

«Our compound has an antiviral effect against all these viruses,» said Michael Gale Jr., University of Washington professor of immunology and director of the UW Center for Innate Immunity and Immune Disease.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

The vaccine protects against four common strains of the virus, considered the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States.

In fact, TBK1 may also be a contributor to debilitating diseases such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and childhood herpes simplex virus encephalitis, if its connection with ICOS somehow triggers B cell activation and specific antibody production against the body's own cells in ALS or an excessive response to the invading viruses in childhood encephalitis.

It can be a serious, life - altering and even fatal disease and currently, there is no cure or drug treatment against West Nile virus, which has been widely spread across the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

In a teleconference held by Nature today, Kobinger said it was «quite remarkable» that they could rescue infected animals that had advanced disease, which he called «a very important step forward in the fight against Ebola virus.»

The study, published in Scientific Reports, demonstrated that animals injected with synthetic DNA engineered to encode a specific neutralizing antibody against the dengue virus were capable of producing the exact antibodies necessary to protect against disease, without the need for standard antigen - based vaccination.

Poultry farmers routinely vaccinate against the disease, which keeps their flocks healthy but does not stop chickens from becoming infected and spreading the virus.

In this month's issue of Nature Medicine, scientists show that the virus causes the symptoms in much the same way as faulty genes do, suggesting that a single therapy could work against the disease.

When the researchers exposed chickens to lethal doses of the avian influenza virus and the Newcastle virus, birds inoculated with the recombinant vaccine produced antibodies against both viruses, offering protection against both diseases.

Despite decades of research decoding the influenza virus — and great advances in treating and vaccinating against the disease — this infectious pathogen continues both to surprise and confound us

Presentation: «Nucleotide Prodrug GS - 5734 Is a Broad - Spectrum Filovirus Inhibitor that Provides Complete Therapeutic Protection Against Ebola Virus Disease in Infected Non-human Primates.»

Similar experiments were performed demonstrating that the purified human antibodies also protected immunosuppressed hamsters against lethal disease caused by Sin Nombre virus.

More to the point, by genetically stripping dengue virus of its ability to bind 14 -3-3 epsilon, Gack has generated a crippled virus that can elicit a strong human immune response, providing a framework for rational vaccine design against emerging infectious diseases.

This is particularly important for vaccination against viruses and diseases such as cancer, in which T cells do not function strongly enough or fast enough to combat the growth of the virus or growth of the tumor cells.

The study relates to a particular type of vaccine (killed) against a particular virus, influenza, though the findings might hold true for other killed vaccines and for those vaccines consisting only of proteins produced by GM in bacteria, yeast or insect cells, against diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV) and human papilloma virus (HPV, the causative agent of cervical cancer).

Evaluations of an inactivated whole virus vaccine in ferrets and nonhuman primates and a virus - like - particle vaccine in mice induced protection against infection but challenged animals exhibited an immunopathologic - type lung disease.

The pathogens that cause disease — parasites, viruses, bacteria — are continually evolving to evade the human immune system, and to resist the vaccines and drugs that are used against them.

Taken together, these studies suggest that a mechanism that exists to defend against viruses also has an effect on whether or not the bacteria cause disease in humans — an important finding that may help us better understand why only some of these bacteria lead to illnesses such as pneumonia and meningitis.

Eisen also said that while rising temperatures caused by climate change could bring the mosquito farther north in the United States, the many elements that influence the mosquito itself and the transmission of dengue virus argue strongly against looking solely at climate to assess disease threat.

Dengue fever and West Nile fever are mosquito - borne diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide each year, but there is no vaccine against either of the related viruses.

As vaccine recipients, we usually think only of the ability of the vaccine to protect us against a specific disease, but here the effects on the whole population and on the influenza virus itself are being considered.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Dengue fever and West Nile fever are mosquito - borne diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide each year, but there is no vaccine against either of the related viruses.

The powerful probiotics in the nut cheeses will nurture intestinal micro flora, heal the gut, and re-colonize intestines with organisms that defend against disease, viruses, and yeast.

«Influenza yearly protection is important for preventing the flu,» said Spicehandler, who is co-chief of infectious diseases at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y. «Each year the vaccine is made up of different strains to protect against what viruses are prevalent.»