Sentences with phrase «in vaccinia virus»

Temperature - sensitive mutants with lesions in the vaccinia virus F10 kinase undergo arrest at the earliest stage of virion morphogenesis.

Elucidating the essential role of the A14 phosphoprotein in vaccinia virus morphogenesis: construction and characterization of a Tetracycline - inducible recombinant.

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Lederman, who says he's «obsessed» with Jenner and has been working on a biography of the scientist for 20 years, is convinced that Jenner's original vaccine, now named vaccinia, was derived from a virus circulating in horses, not cows, as folklore has it.

In a conversation about one of Evan's earlier vaccinia papers, Lederman told Evans that he'd love to know whether horsepox still works as a vaccine, but that he had had trouble getting hold of the virus.

Protein chemist Michael Way, cell biologist Sally Cudmore, and their colleagues at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris have found that vaccinia — a virus used in smallpox vaccines — surfs through cells on piles of actin, one of the basic structural proteins in the cellular skeleton.

In vivo, primary and secondary cytotoxic T cell responses against vaccinia and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus were within normal ranges.

Both assays (for translation enhancement and internal ribosomal initiation) were validated under cell - free conditions and in human cells, using a vaccinia virus vector.

When researchers infected these ERV - depleted cells with the vaccinia virus (which may be related to smallpox), they had a much weaker innate immune response than unedited normal cells, the team reports online today in Science.

The standard smallpox vaccine, a virus called vaccinia, is amazingly effective, which explains how the disease was eradicated in the late 1970s.

PANVAC - V, which uses the same virus as the smallpox vaccine, is a live but weakened vaccinia vaccine (meaning the virus can still multiply) that is given in the arm.

Using a light microscope, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich watched fluorescently tagged vaccinia virus — a more benign cousin of smallpox virus — migrate toward target cells.

When the vaccinia virus was delivered in CIK cells, it was evenly distributed throughout the tumor (left).

Thanks to its resemblance to the smallpox virus, researchers were able to use vaccinia as a vaccine for the disease, eventually leading to its eradication in the late 1970s.

«The novelty here, with vaccinia, is that it's not just preventing the virus superinfecting, but physically it's repelling the virus away,» says Smith, whose team reports its findings today in Science.

On March 3, 2007, a two - year - old boy suffering from severe eczema and an unusual, widespread rash was transferred from St. Catherine's Hospital, in East Chicago, IN, to the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital where he was diagnosed with eczema vaccinatum — a rare, severe, adverse reaction to the vaccinia viruin East Chicago, IN, to the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital where he was diagnosed with eczema vaccinatum — a rare, severe, adverse reaction to the vaccinia viruIN, to the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital where he was diagnosed with eczema vaccinatum — a rare, severe, adverse reaction to the vaccinia virus.

Differences and similarities in viral life cycle progression and host cell physiology after infection of human dendritic cells with modified vaccinia virus Ankara and vaccinia virus.

The Pexa - Vec virus was originally developed by Michael Mastrangelo, MD, and Edmund Lattime, PhD, of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, who engineered the harmless vaccinia virus to infect only cancer cells and other rapidly dividing cells, as well as to stimulate immune activity, in hopes of boosting the immune response to tumors.

While at UConn, he researched improvements to the system for generating recombinant vaccinia viruses in the laboratory of Dr. Paulo Verardi.

Agricola J, Munseri PJ, Nilsson C, Bakari M, Aboud S, Lyamuya EF, Tecleab T, Liakina V, Scarlatti G, Robb, ML, Earl PL, Moss B, Wahren B, Mhalu F, Ferrari G, Sandstrom E, Biberfeld G. Three - year durability of immune responses induced by HIV - DNA and HIV - modified vaccinia virus Ankara and effect of a late HIV - MVA boost in Tanzanian volunteers.