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The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine helps to prevent cervical cancer. However, research indicates that public acceptance of the vaccine is suboptimal. Our aims were to evaluate the willingness of U...
Longidorus aetnaeus Roca, Lamberti, Agostinelli & Vinciguerra, 1986 is reported for the first time from Iran and Ajaria (Georgia). Morphological and morphometric data are provided for two Iranian and...
A population of Xiphinema macroacanthum Lamberti, Roca & Agostinelli, 1989 originating from olive orchards in Brindisi, Italy and containing both adults and all juvenile stages, is described and illus...
The genomic sequences of low and high passages of the United States infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) vaccine strains CEO and TCO were determined using hybrid next generation sequencing in order to d...
In the genus Carthamus (2n=20, 22, 24, 44, 64; x=10, 11, 12), most of the homologues within and between the chromosome complements are difficult to be identified. In the present work, we used fluoresc...
A Puzzling Cause of Relapsing Proteinuria:When Treatment Causes the Disease.
Building laboratory capacity to support the global rotavirus surveillance network.
In 2001, in anticipation of rotavirus vaccine licensure and introduction, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners established regional laboratory surveillance networks for rotavirus detection...
Cytomegalovirus Vectors Violate CD8+ T Cell Epitope Recognition Paradigms.
CD8(+) T cell responses focus on a small fraction of pathogen- or vaccine-encoded peptides, and for some pathogens, these restricted recognition hierarchies limit the effectiveness of antipathogen imm...
BACKGROUND: Automating the classification of adverse event reports is an important step to improve the efficiency of vaccine safety surveillance. Previously we showed it was possible to classify repor...
Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis in a pre-teenage girl: a case report.
Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis is an auto-immune and paraneoplastic encephalitis which generally affects young adults. It is a multistage illness, with prominent extrapyr...
News Articles
Vaccine For Heroin Shows Promise
Scientists say they have seen successful testing of a new vaccine against heroin in lab rats.
Lab Notes: Doubt Cast on Alzheimer's Tx
(MedPage Today) -- Four groups said they could not replicate last year's electrifying finding that a cancer drug cleared beta amyloid plaques from the brains of mice. Also this week: nanoparticles as...
Nanoparticles take us “on the road” to universal flu vaccine
A research team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US have published research in Nature that seems promising in bringing [...]
Astellas and Medivation file for approval of enzalutamide in Japan
Japanese drug major Astellas Pharma (TYO: 4503) has submitted an application for marketing approval of enzalutamide to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan for the treatment of prostate...
A cancer vaccine is a vaccine that treats existing cancer or prevents the development of cancer in certain high-risk individuals. Vaccines that treat existing cancer are known as therapeutic cancer va...
New Research Advances Development of Universal Flu Vaccine
A new approach for immunizing against influenza elicited a more potent immune response and broader protection than the currently licensed seasonal influenza vaccines when tested in mice and ferrets. T...
Promising strategy to help vaccines outsmart HIV
New research highlights an ingenious method to ensure the body effectively reacts when infected with the highly-evasive HIV virus that causes AIDS. The method involves the use of cytomegalovirus as a...
Low-Income, Minority Parents More Open to HPV Vaccine for Girls, Study Says
FRIDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- Low-income, minority parents have more realistic views about their teens' sexual activity and are more open to vaccinating their daughters against the cervical cance...
A Review Of Upcoming Catalysts For Kidney Disease Biotech Players In 2013
ByTech Guru:With a potential U.S. market for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients of almost $1bb, based on 5mm CKD patients above age 65, of whom ~5...
Sinovac Beijing Obtains China GMP Certificate Under the New GMP Guidelines
BEIJING, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SVA), a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced that Sinovac Beijing, the main operating subsidiary...
Events
Cancer Vaccines will provide attendees with a complete view of the cancer immunotherapy field. Focusing on the discovery of new vaccines, developments in target identification
World Vaccine Congress Europe 2013
Where global vaccine stakeholders meet to do business
Clinical Trials Asia Summit is a platform for key stake holders to engage and critically analyze the road map for further growth towards establishing sustainable leadership of India in global Clinical...
Companies
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
1781 Founding Over two centuries ago in 1781, 32-year-old Chobei Takeda I started a business selling traditional Japanese and Chinese medicines in Doshomachi, Osaka, the center of the medicine trade...
Xenetic is a leading UK-based biopharmaceutical company providing leading-edge expertise in the development of a whole new generation of drugs and vaccines. Working with some of the largest pharma...
VGTI Florida is the Florida-funded expansion of Oregon Health & Science University's highly successful Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute. Research at the facility will focus on v...
Etubics Corporation, based in Seattle, Wash., is a clinical stage bio-pharmaceutical company, which has developed a proprietary platform technology consisting of a next generation...
Fraunhofer USA CMB, a division of Fraunhofer USA, Inc., is a not-for-profit research organization whose mission is to develop safe and effective vaccines targeting infectious dise...
Profectus BioSciences, Inc. is a technology based vaccine company devoted to the treatment and prevention of chronic viral diseases with a goal of reducing morbidity and mo...
Genocea Biosciences is a vaccine discovery and development company targeting major infectious diseases with high unmet medical needs, in which T cell response helps confer protect...
Since its inception in 1985, the Japan Prize Foundation has awarded the Japan Prize to 70 people from 13 countries. In addition to awarding the Japan Prize, which is endorsed by t...
Genocea Biosciences is a vaccine discovery and development company targeting major infectious diseases with high unmet medical needs, in which T cell responses help confer protect...
Aduro BioTech is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company with a platform technology for therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines for cancer and infectious diseases. The platform of at...
Clinical Trials
RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a person's white blood cells may help the body build an effective immune response. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects of vaccine therap...
Improving the Immune System With Human IL-7 Vaccine in Older Subjects Who Have Had Chemotherapy
Background: - Drugs given to treat cancer (chemotherapy) can weaken the human immune system. But it can also become weaker because of aging. Interleukin (IL)-7, a molecule produced natura...
Study of the Safety and Immunogenicity of a Novel H5N1 Influenza Vaccine in Healthy Adults Age 18-49
The purpose of this study is to test an investigational vaccine known as "VAX161C." An "investigational" vaccine is one that is not licensed for commercial use in the by the United States...
The purpose of this study is to assess the control of COPD using a symptom and exacerbation risk based treatment strategy based on GOLD 2011. This study is conducted in Japanese subjects w...
The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness and safety of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin hydrochloride injection in Japanese patients with Mullerian carcinoma. This clinical...
We plan to study whether the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevnar™) is safe and effective in protecting children who have had a solid organ transplantation and healthy childr...
Influenza Vaccine in Lung Transplant Patients
Research Question: How do antibody and T cell responses following influenza vaccine compare among lung transplant patients, patients waiting for lung transplantation and healthy individua...
Administration of Autologous Dendritic Cells (DCs) Infected With an Adenovirus Expressing Her-2
We, the researchers at Hamilton Health Sciences, have developed a novel approach to cancer therapy using transfected dendritic cells (DCs) to generate enhanced immunity to defined tumor an...
GSK Biologicals is developing in partnership with the Malaria Vaccine Initiative at PATH a candidate malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02 for the routine immunization of infants and children living...
Malaria is an important cause of death and serious illness among Mozambican children. Although the risk of malaria can be reduced by drugs and by impregnated bed nets, it would be helpful...
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Mass Vaccination
Administration of a vaccine to large populations in order to elicit IMMUNITY.
Actinobacteria
Class of BACTERIA with diverse morphological properties. Strains of Actinobacteria show greater than 80% 16S rDNA/rRNA sequence similarity among each other and also the presence of certain signature nucleotides. (Stackebrandt E. et al, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1997) 47:479-491)
Nipah Virus
A species of HENIPAVIRUS, closely related to HENDRA VIRUS, which emerged in Peninsular Malaysia in 1998. It causes a severe febrile VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS in humans and also encephalitis and RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS in pigs. Fruit bats (PTEROPUS) are the natural host.
Russian-japanese War
Conflict from 1904 through 1905 between Russia and Japan regarding Manchuria and Korea.
Acanthamoeba Castellanii
A species of free-living soil amoebae in the family Acanthamoebidae. It can cause ENCEPHALITIS and KERATITIS in humans.
