Sentences with phrase «vaccines targeted against»

«That's further evidence that BamE may be a new vaccine target against N. gonorrhoeae,» Sikora said.

Not exact matches

H. contortus has become resistant to all major treatments against parasitic worms, so its genome is a good model to understand how drug resistance develops in this complex group of closely related parasites and will also reveal further potential drug and vaccine targets.

Previous infection with one serotype of dengue, or protection against just one serotype, can lead to more severe disease if a person contracts other serotypes, so it's vital that vaccines are available that specifically target all four strains.

It is also a whole - tumor vaccine, meant to stimulate an immune response against not just one tumor - associated target but hundreds or thousands.

«The microgravity environment of the International Space Station is now being used for myriad lines of research, for example: vaccine development, finding novel molecular targets against drug - resistant pathogens, and testing of molecules to be used against osteoporosis or cancer,» Zea says.

Because the vaccine causes the body to mount an immune response directed against a unique tumor, the therapy is much more effective than gene - targeted or more general chemotherapy alone.

A vaccine against meningitis has an unexpected side effect: It appears to target gonorrhea, too.

2005 - 2006 — Merck and GSK report that the two HPV vaccines made from viruslike particles are 100 percent effective against the targeted HPV strains.

Another possibility that Irvine's lab is working on is developing treatments that could be used against tumors even when scientists don't know of a specific vaccine target for that type of tumor.

Childhood vaccines are recommended worldwide, based on their protective effect against the targeted diseases.

Once in the lymph nodes, these vaccines can stimulate production of huge numbers of T cells against the vaccine target.

The work should help provide targets for better drugs against S. pneumoniae, which is increasingly becoming resistant to existing therapies, as well as vaccines.

One factor is cross protection, which is the vaccine's ability to protect against additional HPV types that it does not directly target.

Most other vaccine trials have tried to use the malaria parasite — rather than the body's reaction against it — to find possible targets for vaccines.

The structure could inform vaccine development, as the Zika E glycoprotein is a key target of immune responses against the virus.

We assess spontaneous and vaccine - induced immune responses against melanoma, and have a particular interest in developing methods for understanding functional subpopulations within melanoma and the optimal ways of targeting them therapeutically.

'» In all patients who were vaccinated, his team found tumor - targeting T cells, and he noted that in addition to augmenting pre-existing T cell responses, the vaccine also stimulated new T cell responses against tumors.

At first, analyzing a patient's surgically removed tumor and developing a vaccine against 10 specific targets on the tumor took nine months, says Greg Lizée, Ph.D., associate professor of Melanoma Medical Oncology, whose research focuses on the immune system.

Influenza vaccines that better target the influenza surface protein called neuraminidase (NA) could offer broad protection against various influenza virus strains and lessen the...

«We have created a potentially much less expensive approach to making a therapeutic cancer vaccine that, while targeting a single tumor antigen, generates an immune response against multiple antigens.