Immunology

HPV Vaccine Reduces Genital Wart Occurrence In Australian Women, Finds Study

Genital warts prevalence in Australian women plummeted 59% since a nationally funded quadrivalent human papillomarivus (HPV) vaccination program  for teen and pre-teen girls was introduced in 2007, says a paper in BMJ. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2013 - 9:04am

Bird Flu: H7N9 Infection Risk Mapped

A map of avian influenza (H7N9) risk is now available. The map is comprised of bird migration patterns, and adding in estimations of poultry production and consumption, which are used to infer future risk and to advise on ways to prevent infection. As of ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2013 - 10:13am

H1N1 In Elephant Seals: First Instance In Any Marine Mammal

A year after the 2009 human H1N1 pandemic began, researchers detected the H1N1 virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast. It is the first report of that flu strain in any marine mammal. H1N1 originated in pigs. It emerg ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2013 - 4:52pm

How The Immune System Tolerate A Healthy Gut Flora

The human intestinal tract is the home of a diverse array of bacterial colonies, settling in as soon as their host begins life. While these colonies were considered to merely coexist with the host for their own survival, decades of study have shown the in ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - May 24 2013 - 4:20pm

FDA Lifts Clinical Hold On PharmAthene's SparVax Anthrax Vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifted the clinical hold previously placed on a proposed Phase II study of SparVax, a next generation recombinant anthrax vaccine, PharmAthene, Inc. announced. The clinical hold was enacted in August 2012, pr ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2013 - 10:01pm

Got The Gout, Ebenezer? Don't Blame Your Big Toe

Gout is a painful rheumatic condition. It occurs when uric acid, a bodily waste product, crystallizes in joints and soft tissues. Gout is often associated with the big toe, but that turns out to be unfair; patients at highest risk of further flare-ups are ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2013 - 6:38pm

TCA1 Compound Kills Persistent And Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

A team of researchers has identified a highly promising new anti-tuberculosis compound that attacks the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium in two different ways. Although isoniazid and rifampin, two front-line TB drugs, came into use in 1952 and 1967 respectivel ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2013 - 4:00pm

No Danger Of Cancer Through Gene Therapy Virus AAV-LPL S447X

In the fall of 2012, the European Medicines Agency approved the modified adeno-associated virus AAV-LPL S447X as the first ever gene therapy for clinical use in the Western world. AAV-LPL S447X was developed for the treatment of a rare inherited metabolic ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2013 - 11:00am

Has Inflammatory Bowel Disease Increased In The US?

The largest investigation to-date has found a dramatic increase in the number of hospitalizations for children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) during the past decade in the United States. But does that mean there are actually more cases? ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2013 - 4:00pm

Common Genetic Architectures Of Down Syndrome

Trisomy 21, commonly called Down syndrome, is a genetic condition in which a person has 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46- three of the #21 chromosomes, rather than the usual two.(1)  Down syndrome  is one of the most common genetic birth defects, af ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2013 - 9:57am