Measles in Biological News

Scripps research team sheds light on immune system suppression

... choriomeningits virus, and presumably other immunosupressor viruses like measles and HIV, disable this system. This then compromises other reactions, most ... new treatments for the many immunosuppressive conditions such as HIV and measles that plague humans. "I think that our study opens up an avenue for people ...

Viruses may play a role in lung cancer development

... No. 125PD; Friday 25th April, 09:50), Israeli researchers suggest that measles virus may also be a factor in some lung cancers. Their study included 65 ... with non-small-cell lung cancer, of whom more than half had evidence of measles virus in tissue samples taken from their cancer. "Measles virus is a ...

Vaccines and autism: Many hypotheses, but no correlation

... is contributing to the current increase in Haemophilus influenzae cases in Minnesotaincluding the death of one childand was a factor in last year's measles outbreak in California. The controversy began with a 1998 study in The Lancet that suggested a link between the combination measles-mumps-rubella ...

Nature Medicine study shows Peregrine's bavituximab can cure lethal virus infections

... PS is exposed on the outer membrane of cells infected with HIV, influenza (including avian flu), herpes simplex viruses, hemorrhagic fever viruses, measles and members of the small pox and rabies virus families. Dr. Barton Haynes, director of Duke University's Human Vaccine Institute and the Center for ...

Syracuse University partners with Serum Institute of India to develop vaccines for children

... produces and supplies low-cost, life-saving vaccines for children and adults living in low-income countries. It is the world's largest producer of measles and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DPT) vaccines. An estimated two out of every three immunized children in the world have received a vaccine ...

Feed that cold!

... effectively, must provoke B cells to produce sufficient antibodies for immune memory. Previous studies have found that vaccines such as those for measles have a significantly lower rate of efficacy among the malnourished. A 30% restriction in food intake doesnt affect body mass and only minimally ...

Investigating the measles virus as a tool to kill multiple myeloma

... new Phase I clinical trial testing an engineered measles virus against multiple myeloma, a cancer of the ... studies in patients testing the potential of measles to kill cancer. “This is the beginning of a ... on the multiple myeloma clinical trial in the measles virus investigation. “We are very hopeful that ...

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center: Harnessing the measles virus to attack cancer

... new clinical study using a vaccine strain of the measles virus to attack recurrent glioblastoma ... molecular medicine studies in patients using measles to kill cancer. "We are looking at better ways ... on the glioblastoma multiforme project in the measles virus investigation. "We have shown in the ...

New study shows measles immunization may prevent fatal brain infection

... A new study has found wild-type measles virus in tissues from patients who died of a ... the notion that the strain of virus in the measles vaccine caused the infection. The study, in the ... online, also concludes that vaccination against measles could prevent many more cases of the disease, ...

Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years

... killer, by the end of this year. Global measles deaths have plummeted by 39%, from 873 000 in ... highest burden of the disease, where estimated measles deaths decreased by 46%. "Progress of this ... community, even more can be accomplished." measles is an important cause of childhood deaths. Only a ...

Turning viruses into allies against cancer

... including modifications of the virus that causes measles and another, the herpes simplex virus, ... in the study were enrolled. Engineered measles Virus Seeks Out and Destroys Liver Cancer Cells: Abstract LB-297 A weakened measles virus, modified with a protein that normally ...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Create 'Obedient Virus'; First Step To Use Measles Virus Against Cancer

... to devise a system that consistently converts the measles virus into a therapeutic killer that hunts down ... ablated (destroyed) the ability of the measles virus to interact with its two natural receptors. ... techniques, the team reprogrammed the measles virus to seek a cancer cell to bind to instead of ...

Scientists find a key to immune system's ability to remember

... with viruses, bacteria and other pathogens is why we only get the measles or chicken pox once, and is why exposure to deactivated virus particles in ... as antigen receptors that act to identify the signatures of pathogens like measles virus and HIV, agents that hide inside cells. Lck is important in ...

How 'memory' T cells curb the spread of viruses throughout the body

... the body becomes “immune” (protected) from recurrence of the same disease. This is why before vaccines were developed, childhood diseases such as measles and mumps occurred only once in a lifetime. The immunity occurs when the immune system produces cells called lymphocytes that specifically attack ...

Scientists identify molecular structure of key viral protein

... "The family includes viruses that cause measles, mumps, bronchitis, pneumonia, canine distemper, croup and Newcastle disease, which kills chickens. measles still causes huge numbers of deaths worldwide. And while HIV, influenza and SARS are not in the same family, the viruses do share a mechanism similar ...

Typhoid fever led to the fall of Athens

... researchers have not managed to agree on the identity of the plague and several diseases, including bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax and measles have been implicated in the emergence and spread of this epidemic. A mass burial pit unearthed in the Kerameikos ancient cemetery of Athens and ...

Preventing a pandemic: Study suggests strategies for containing a flu outbreak

... quarantine could contain strains with a reproductive number around 2.4. A value of 2.4 is relatively contagious, though some other viruses such as measles are substantially higher. In all cases, early intervention would be essential. The authors note in their study that the current World Health ...

UF scientist finds unexpected link between cat and human AIDS viruses

... been successfully used in vaccines against viruses from the same subfamily, such as smallpox in humans, which is made from cowpox virus, and human measles vaccines for canine distemper in puppies. "Therefore, protective vaccines based on cross-reactive regions of AIDS viruses can provide broad ...

Researcher at UGA College of Veterinary Medicine identifies new way of combating viral diseases

... ?a factor required for viruses to reproduce in a cell.Disrupting Rab9 prevented the replication of four different viruses ?Marburg, Ebola, HIV-1, and measles viruses. "We believe that interfering with the Rab9 pathway interferes with the ability of the viruses to exit the cell, thereby dramatically ...