Sentences with phrase «guide vaccine design»
Two studies published on July 9th in PLOS Pathogens provide results on Nabs that could help guide vaccine design.
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«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.
The ability to design new protein nanostructures could have useful implications in targeted delivery of drugs, in vaccine development and in plasmonics — manipulating electromagnetic signals to guide light diffraction for information technologies, energy production or other uses.
For 30 years, researchers have struggled to determine which immune responses best foil HIV, information that has guided the design of AIDS vaccines and other prevention approaches.
For the published request for applications, see the May 18, 2016 Guide announcement, Partnerships for Structure - Based Design of Novel Immunogens for Vaccine Development (R01).
Dr. Schief's work focuses on computation - guided and structure - based design of immunogens and immunization regimens, with the goal of inducing broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV and other pathogens that have frustrated traditional vaccine design strategies.
All this information is being mined to guide the design and development of a new and perhaps more potent generation of AIDS vaccine candidates.
Guided by the Behavioral Vaccine Theory of prevention, this study uses a no - control group design to examine intervention variables that predict favorable changes in depressive symptoms at the six - to - eight week follow - up in at - risk adolescents who participated in a primary care, Internet - based prevention program.