Sentences with phrase «new vaccines using»

Scientific programs include: human genomic sequencing and analysis, synthetic genomics and exploration of new vaccines using this technology, and environmental and single cell genomics to explore the vast unseen world of microbes living in the human body, the ocean, soil and air.

Not exact matches

For example, a new Ebola vaccine was just developed, and its creation required the use of monkeys.

Today all new viral strains used to make vaccines must be generated by specific artificial genetic modifications rather than by «breeding,» so as to prevent possible reversion back to a virulent form.

The manufacturer of the sole dengue vaccine on the market says a new study shows that it should only be used in people who have had a previous infection from the mosquito - borne virus.

Together with researchers at the CNRS, the group has demonstrated the efficacy of RNA - based vaccines produced using the new method against plant virus infections.

No rapid, reliable test for previous dengue infection is available, so the new guidelines mean that the vaccine can't be widely used; that could lead the company to stop making the vaccine.

Texas researchers are planning to use a combination of tobacco plants and podlike laboratories to speed the production of new vaccines

And a new analysis of the STEP trial, published last November in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development work) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually make the immune system more vulnerable to infection by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

In the new study, researchers at the NIAID used a virus - like particle vaccine cocktail that expressed a handful of different subtypes of a key surface protein of the influenza virus: hemagglutinin H1, H3, H5 and H7.

Another possible application for the new machine is generating peptides that could be used as personalized cancer vaccines targeting unique proteins found in individual patients» tumors.

Researchers have made headway in understanding the H5N1 virus; they have created new vaccines and are looking into other possible treatments, such as using antibodies from survivors.

At Kaiser Permanente Northern California, which conducted the study, the first use of the new DTaP was in the vaccine's fifth booster shot in 1991, followed by its use for the fourth booster the next year.

The US decides to use its standard formulation for flu vaccine, so no new regulatory tests will be needed.

Some have argued that the switch from the older cellular vaccine, which uses whole bacteria, to the newer acellular vaccine, which was introduced in 1997 and contains components of the bacteria, resulted in weaker immunity among children and teenagers.

To create a new dengue virus vaccine, Stefan Metz, Shaomin Tian in the laboratories of Aravinda de Silva, Chris Luft and Joe DeSimone at the University of Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA designed nanoparticles of various shapes and sizes using Particle Replication in Non-wetting Template (PRINT) technology.

In addition, vaccine - makers that use eggs can not begin developing new vaccines that target new virus strains until the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) creates a live - virus reference strain for these companies to work with, a process that could take several weeks.

«Key benefits of large - scale use of universal over conventional flu vaccines: Mathematical model reveals potential effects of new vaccines that target multiple flu strains.»

Vaccination rates for a critical booster shot tripled after clinics began using electronic prompts alerting them of patients needing the Tdap vaccine that protects against tetanus, diptheria, and whooping cough, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System.

Using the new measure would almost certainly help improve the situation, but it's not the only vaccine metric in need of a revamp.

«What is new about this is we have developed a vaccine against dust - mite allergens that hasn't been used before,» says Aliasger Salem, professor in pharmaceutical sciences at the UI and a corresponding author on the paper.

Yet vaccine companies have little incentive to build expensive new factories to make a product that will mostly be used once wild polio is gone — maybe in three years, maybe 10 — and then only for another five years or so.

A new approach to the live flu vaccine would be particularly advantageous right now after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped recommending use of the live attenuate flu vaccine, FluMist ® earlier this year.

Some newer vaccine candidates use harmless viruses such as modified adenoviruses to deliver genes that encode immunizing viral proteins.

By contrast, the new Zika candidate vaccine uses tiny strands of RNA that hold the genetic codes for making viral proteins.

The new candidate vaccine is the first to show such potent and long - lasting protection without the use of a live virus.

5) Explore new vaccine technologies — Longer term, we need to evaluate new ways to vaccinate wild carnivores for distemper, in situations wherein use of an injectable vaccine is not feasible by hand or by dart.

And a new analysis of the stopped STEP trial, published online Monday in Proceedings in the National Academy of Sciences, provides a warning that the very vectors (adenoviruses, which are also employed in other vaccine development) used to distribute the inactive HIV strains can actually prime the immune system to be infected by recruiting susceptible T cells to mucous membranes, where they are more likely to be infected during sexual activity.

For the study, the research team used a new method in which mice were immunized with a model vaccine (called an antigen) that is given orally.

He worries that a live vaccine that uses Vibrio strains whose virulence genes have been removed may still be capable of getting new virulence genes through its integron.

This new study shows that it may be important to use these vaccines for a specific population.

In 1955, 13 years too late for Edgerton, the United States began the widespread use of a new polio vaccine that would eventually prevent millions of children from contracting polio and suffering its consequences.

«New malaria vaccine effective in clinical trial: Researchers achieve protection of up to 100 percent using fully viable malaria parasites.»

New, so - called oil - in - water adjuvants could make the vaccines more potent and might stretch the limited vaccine supply, but the compounds, already in use in Europe, have not received FDA approval.

Ebola vaccine for chimps works but may never be used Chimpanzees threatened by an Ebola outbreak could be protected by a new vaccine, but cuts in chimp research may stymie its development

«You have to have a transition period» in which both oral and inactivated vaccines are used, «because if you stop cold turkey you're going to have outbreaks», says Vincent Racaniello, a virologist at Columbia University in New York City.

The new technique, pioneered by Wilson and fellow researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, saves time by using antibodies produced by so - called B cells (white blood cells that produce and then ferry them to infection sites to battle invading germs) in response to vaccines instead of to actual infections.

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.

The bacterium that causes whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis, has changed in Australia — most likely in response to the vaccine used to prevent the disease — with a possible reduced effectiveness of the vaccine as a result, a new study shows.

Kennedy has continued to use his name to promote the idea, and in recent months vaccine skeptics have called for a new «vaccine safety» commission with Kennedy at its head.

The research proposes a new model of evolutionary games with a feedback loop in which changes to the resource — whether it be water supplies, pastureland, antibiotics, or vaccine use — change the incentives for people to take action in their own interests.

People's willingness to use a Zika vaccine when it's available will be influenced by how they weigh the risks associated with the disease and the vaccine, but also by their misconceptions about other vaccines, a new study has found.

Now researchers have used a new strategy to develop a vaccine that protects mice from multiple variants of the Strep B bug, which kills around 100 newborns in the United States each year.

In addition to the expanded use of ARVs in new modalities such as pre-exposure prophylaxis and microbicides [1], this includes commensal microbicides [2], gene therapies [3], [4] and vaccines [5], [6], [7].

The vaccines used by commercial fish farmers are not protecting fish from disease, according to a new study.

Department researchers are developing new vaccines against these viruses and in identifying small molecular weight compounds for use as antivirals.

After constructing the first synthetic bacterial cell and the first minimal bacterial cell, JCVI scientists are using the groundbreaking techniques used in these milestones to construct synthetic flu vaccines, develop unique new sources of insulin, and more efficient means to produce algae - based biofuels.

The current epizootic in the Far East caused by avian influenza virus A (H5N1) has led to real concern about the possibility of a new pandemic of influenza.12 Technological innovation, such as the use of new vaccines delivered by the intradermal route, offers great promise to change and improve on current immunization strategies.

Already, the Pirbright team has used the new vaccine to give a sample of British cattle complete immunity to lethal strains of LSD and rinderpest.

«To date, neither antiviral drugs nor vaccines are approved for clinical use against human parainfluenza virus, which reinforces the urgent need for new therapeutic discovery strategies.

These same models are used to develop new anti-cancer vaccines based on long peptide or DNA vaccination targeting the antigen to antigen presenting cells.