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Long-term depression linked with life-threatening chronic disease, earlier death

The first symptoms of major depression may be behavioral, but the common mental illness is based in biology — and not limited to the brain. In recent years some studies have linked major, long-term depression with life-threatening chronic disease a...

Professionals and Patients Increasingly Confused by Guidance on Screening for Risk of Prostate Cancer

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Representing the interests of the 240,000 American men who are at risk each year for a diagnosis of prostate cancer, and the over 2 million men living today who have been diagnosed with this deadly form of cancer, the membership of the Prostate Cancer Roundtable is increasingly concerned by the utterly confusing guidance being offered –...

CEL-SCI Corporation To Present At The Second Annual Marcum LLP MicroCap Conference

VIENNA, Va., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE MKT: CVM) announced today that Geert Kersten, Chief Executive Officer, will present at the Second Annual Marcum LLP MicroCap Conference on Thursday, May 30, 2013 in New York City at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The Company's presentation is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. EDT. For more information and registration, please visit the c...

Pressure BioSciences, Inc. to Discuss First Quarter 2013 Financial Results and Provide Business Update

SOUTH EASTON, Mass., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" and the "Company") today announced that the Company will host a teleconference to discuss its First Quarter 2013 financial results and to provide a business update. The teleconference information is provided below: Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013Time: 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) Dial-in: (80...

Actress Archie Panjabi signs on with Rotary to eradicate polio

EVANSTON, Ill., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- British-born actress Archie Panjabi, best known to millions of TV viewers as the sultry, enigmatic investigator Kalinda Sharma on the hit CBS series, "The Good Wife," has teamed up with the humanitarian organization Rotary International to protect children everywhere by eradicating the paralyzing disease polio. To view the multimedia assets a...

Successful results in developing oral vaccin against diarrhea

The University of Gothenburg Vaccine Research Institute (GUVAX) announces successful results in a placebo controlled phase I study of an oral, inactivated Escherichia coli diarrhea vaccine. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the pr...

Vaccine blackjack: IL-21 critical to fight against viral infections

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at Emory Vaccine Center have shown that an immune regulatory molecule called IL-21 is needed for long-lasting antibody responses in mice against viral infections.

Depression linked to telomere enzyme, aging, chronic disease

(Medical Xpress)—The first symptoms of major depression may be behavioral, but the common mental illness is based in biology—and not limited to the brain.

Inhibikase Therapeutics to present at Industry Conference on Drug-Induced Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML)

ATLANTA, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc., an emerging leader in infectious disease treatments, announced today that it will present new results on its antiviral program to 'prevent' PML at an industry conference sponsored by the PML Consortium (composed of Pfizer, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Roche and Biogen Idec).  JC polyomavirus (JCV) is the causative agent of Pr...

Pusan National University Announces Science Translational Medicine Publication Highlighting Landmark Demonstration of Functional Anti-Cancer Antibody Induction in Patients Following JX-594 Treatment

BUSAN, South Korea, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, in collaboration with SillaJen, Inc., a private biotherapeutics and contract research company focused on research and development of targeted biological products for cancer, announced today a publication reporting the induction of functional anti-cancer antibodies in patients treated with the oncolytic and...

Non-invasive Quality Control of Cryopreserved Samples

Since the dawn of modern medicine, human biological material has been collected, stored, and used for a variety of purposes with biological integrity ensured by cryopreservation at temperatures below -137°C. These samples are almost always unique and irreplaceable but, until now, it has been impossible to quality assure the material before use to check that thermal damage has not occurred. In...

Manchester nuclear hormone research approach is a UK first

Researchers and doctors from Manchester institutes have joined forces with pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to launch an innovative joined-up approach to tackling chronic inflammatory disease. The creation of the Manchester Centre for Nuc...

BioLife Solutions Announces Presentation at 8th World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress

BOTHELL, Wash., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BioLife Solutions, Inc. (OTC:BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media for cells and tissues, and contract aseptic media manufacturer, today announced its participation at the Terrapinn World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress 2013 this week...

The Fungus Among Us: Your Skin Is Crawling With Fungi, Especially Your Feet

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Your skin is literally covered with almost 200 different kinds of fungi. This isn’t the scene out of some twisted horror movie – it’s the conclusion of a team of American researchers who recently created a topographic map of fungi typically found on living human skin. To create their map, scientists from the National Human Genome Researc...

Measuring The Health Of Human Genetic Material In Relation To A Patient's Age

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new technique featured in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) could lead to the development of a "genetic thermometer" that could assess a patient's health in relation to other individuals. The method developed by the laboratory of Dr. Gil Atzmon at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine measures telomere length, which serv...

Pfizer takes its shot at a vaccine for evasive superbug

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis vaccine...

FEATURE-Pfizer takes its shot at a vaccine for evasive superbug

CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis...

EMBL Choose ambr Micro Bioreactor System for Insect Cell Culture Enabling Rapid Production of Human Multi-protein Complexes using Baculovirus

TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, today announced its advanced micro bioreactor system (ambr™) is in use at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Grenoble, France, one of the world’s leading structural biology research institutes, for rapid small-scale parallel expression of human multi-pro...

Rick King, VP at IAVI, to Present on HIV Vaccine Design at GTC’s Vaccines Conf., July 8-10, Boston

Boston, MA, May 23, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Rick King, Vice President of Vaccine Design at the International Aids Vaccine Initiative, will present on “New Approaches to HIV Vaccine Design” at GTC’s 11th Vaccines Research & Development: All Things Considered Conference on July 8–10, 2013 in Boston, MA. Generation of a broadly effective HIV vaccine will require a solution to...

William Florence, DTRA, to Present on Biodefense Vaccines at GTC’s Vaccines Conf., July 8-10, Boston

Boston, MA, May 23, 2013 --(PR.com)-- William Florence, Acting Branch Chief for Vaccines in the Translational Medical Division at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, will present on “Current Biodefense Vaccine Programs and Challenges” at GTC’s 11th Vaccines Research & Development: All Things Considered Conference on July 8–10, 2013 in Boston, MA. The Defense Threat R...

Wisconsin Pediatricians Say Eliminating Mandatory Flu Vaccine Programs Would Put Children at Risk

Kimberly, WI, May 23, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The Wisconsin Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (WIAAP) (http://WIAAP.org) today announced its opposition to proposed legislation that would limit employer mandatory flu vaccine programs. The bill, numbered LRB 0020/1 and currently being considered for co-sponsorship, provides for a “personal exemption” from any mandated flu vaccinat...

Step Toward Universal Flu Vaccine Shows Promise In Animal Tests

A new approach for creating immunity against the flu virus that produces a stronger immune reaction and protects against more strains than the current vaccines, has shown promising results in animal tests. The result is a step forward in the develo...

Self-assembling influenza nanoparticle vaccines elicit broadly neutralizing H1N1 antibodies

Influenza viruses pose a significant threat to the public and are a burden on global health systems. Each year, influenza vaccines must be rapidly produced to match circulating viruses, a process constrained by dated technology and vulnerable to unex...

Innate lymphoid cells regulate CD4+ T-cell responses to intestinal commensal bacteria

Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are a recently characterized family of immune cells that have critical roles in cytokine-mediated regulation of intestinal epithelial cell barrier integrity. Alterations in ILC responses are associated with multiple chron...

Scientists make important step forward in the quest to develop universal influenza 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.