Sentences with phrase «potential vaccine for the disease»

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«We are honored to receive this award which underscores the unique value of our technology platform and its game changing potential to make novel vaccines for important human diseases.»

The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, put the brakes on implementation of the world's first dengue vaccine today when it recommended it only be used in people who have previously been infected with the disease — a move that will shrink the potential market for the vaccine's producer, Sanofi Pasteur.

She found that the weakened sporozoites triggered immunity against malaria instead of the disease, paving the way for a potential vaccine.

«This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal with sudden outbreaks or make rapid modifications and improvements,» says Daniel Anderson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).

This new discovery holds the potential for also developing a vaccine to reduce the heavy burden malaria disease inflicts on children.

The vaccine also has potential to be administered to developing chicks in eggs, resulting in offspring being automatically vaccinated for the diseases, said Wenjun Ma, Kansas State University assistant professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology and one of the researchers involved.

The Center for Predictive Medicine recognizes the challenges of translational research such as in designing and implementing high - throughput screens and assessing small molecules and potential vaccines for their efficacy in small animal models of disease.

The findings should help scientists to better understand the immune system, including autoimmune diseases, as well as provide potential new targets for immunotherapy and vaccine design.

Vaccine research has been heralded as a bright spot in 2012's medical advances against cancer and related diseases — with potential for yielding even more progress in 2013.

Thousands of new immune system signals have been uncovered with potential implications for immunotherapy, autoimmune diseases and vaccine development.

We strive to balance the needs for vaccinations to protect against deadly diseases, against the potential risks to cats from vaccines.

Remember, recommendations vary depending on the age, breed, and health status of the cat, the potential of the cat to be exposed to the disease, the type of vaccine, whether the cat is used for breeding, and the geographical area where the cat lives or may visit.

According to an article in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association in 1995, concerns about too - frequent vaccination center on the potential for vaccines to trigger autoimmune diseases in susceptible dogs.

Dogs may be immunized against different diseases on the basis of their potential exposure, epidemiological importance of disease, local laws, breed etc. but non-core vaccines are not mandatory for every dog.

In addition, the leptospirosis vaccine is now recommended as a core vaccine for dogs in California because the disease has the potential to occur in any dog (even in urban environments), can be life - threatening, and the vaccines are considered safe and efficacious, with recent improvements in safety over the last decade.

I personally would rather treat my dog for Lyme disease rather than risking the potential side effects of the vaccine.

With a simple annual wellness exam, in addition to administering any necessary vaccines, your veterinarian can screen for potential problems like heart disease, diabetes, joint issues, obesity, and oral health and suggest lifestyle changes to prevent or reverse any issues from developing.

So why are so many veterinarians still vaccinating for this disease, when the vaccine itself has the potential to cause fatal cancer in cats?