Sentences with phrase «work against all strains»

VaxInnate is testing a universal flu vaccine that would work against all strains of the disease by using a Toll - like receptor (TLR) technology platform.

But the ideal flu drug would work against all strains when symptoms surface, which remains a tall order.

In preliminary experiments not reported in the Nature paper, Korbinger said he has in vivo evidence that ZMapp works against the strain now circulating in West Africa.

Early tests of a gp120 vaccine looked promising, but optimism faded by the early 1990s as researchers learned the vaccine only worked against strains of HIV that had adapted to conditions in the laboratory.

Not exact matches

The company currently uses a lab test that takes a minimum of eight hours, and sometimes up to a day or two, to get a readout of what phage or phages will work best against a particular strain of bacteria.

«Everything works against fathers»: UK dads feel work - life balance strain The Women and Equalities Committee's Fathers and the workplace is ongoing.

* While there are, as of yet, no clinical studies to confirm the results, a laboratory study conducted at the College of Pharmacy at Oregon State University (OSU) presented at a December 2007 meeting of the American Society of Health - System Pharmacists found that an ointment containing benzethonium chloride with tea tree and white thyme oil worked best against all four tested MRSA strains, while ointments containing neomycin, polymyxin, and gramicidin also had some antibacterial effectiveness.

Orme and his research team in Fort Collins investigated whether the existing vaccine for TB, which goes by the acronym BCG (bacille Calmette - Guerin), worked equally well against different clinical strains of tuberculosis.

Although a small number of antibiotics work against MRSA, the bacterium continually evolves resistant strains.

However, researchers are working to develop universal vaccines that could protect against multiple flu strains without needing to be updated.

Image courtesy of Vmenkov / Wikimedia Commons After public outcry against research into avian flu strains that can be transmitted among mammals, 40 of the top scientists working on the influenza strains signed a voluntary moratorium on research last January.

New strains have emerged that resist the last few antibiotics that still worked against the disease.

But «the breadth of protection against numerous influenza strains was not investigated here,» and will be important work for the future, he says.

In the test tube experiments, SMARt - 420 made ethionamide more potent in both ethionamide sensitive and resistant bacteria, and it worked against a wide range of M. tuberculosis strains.

The new vaccine, however, works against an Ebola strain that infects humans.

The work, directed by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., found that some study participants who reported receiving flu vaccines had a strong immune response not only against the seasonal H3N2 flu strain from 2010, when blood samples were collected for analysis, but also against flu subtypes never included in any vaccine formulation.

Work in mice suggests that this strain has acquired a sugary coating that repels the nets, so Sheppard's team is developing drugs against this coating.

Although the experiment used an older Ebola virus that differs from the strain now in West Africa, the researchers showed in a test - tube study that ZMapp also worked against the more recently isolated virus.

Immunologists are working on vaccines that don't need to be reformulated each year: «universal vaccines» that induce broad immunity, protecting against current and future strains of flu by mechanisms that are not just dependent on antibody.

An experimental vaccine poised to win World Health Organization approval as the first to even partially protect children against malaria works better against one strain of the disease - causing parasite than others.

Although some vaccines are in use in Asia, we do not know whether they would work against the U.S. strains of the virus.»

Hyperextensions This and the lower back machine where you sit back against a padded arm, are the best exercises for working the erector muscles without undue strain on the spinal structure.

There is another parvo strain named CPV2b FP84 that provokes disease in a small percentage of domestic cats, but the common FPV vaccination seems to work against it.

Over time, his drawings began to increase in size; the bold forms he created strained against the boundaries of paper, challenging the notion of drawing as merely preparatory work.

Her works push the boundaries of a two - dimensional medium; the irregular triangles in the «Giant Maiden» series (1972) strain against the edges of canvases painted in high relief, while the explosive colors on an intricate collage - like canvas in Do the Dance (2005) lend the painting a kinetic, almost optical quality.

Nigoghossian intends these works for outdoor display, and accordingly conceived of the exhibition as something that strains against its containing walls, pushing towards the outside world.