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Vaccination with embryonic stem cells prevents lung cancer in mice

...ning tumour free. Importantly, tumours arising in vaccinated mice were, on average, about 80-90% smaller than t... unvaccinated mice developed tumours. None of the vaccinated mice developed autoimmune disease or a showed a significant decline in adult pluripotent bone marrow...

Experimental vaccine given during pregnancy reduces stillbirths from common virus

...le guinea pigs not receiving the vaccine. The vaccinated group (10 litters) produced 28 live pups and 4 dea... The young female guinea pigs in the study were vaccinated three times at two-month intervals before they became pregnant and were injected with the guinea pig...

Cancer vaccines -- Taking a jab at cancer by stimulating the immune system

...ions and HPV infections through 5.5 years in women vaccinated with the HPV-16/18 L1 VLP AS04 candidate vaccine: Abstract 4900 Ongoing evaluation of a phase II trial of a human papillomavirus vaccine, developed to prevent cervical cancer, shows that the vaccine continues to protect against HPV types 16 and 1...

Anthrax attack posed greater potential threat than thought

...be unexposed; and, for comparison, six individuals vaccinated against B. anthracis, two confirmed to have had anthrax, and 12 with no known B. anthracis exposure. The results: Immune responses occurred not only in subjects in or near the Daschle office but also in those elsewhere in the Hart building, or eve...

Jefferson scientists find rabies-based vaccine could be effective against HIV

...that two years after the initial vaccination, four vaccinated non-human primates were protected from disease, even after being "challenged" with a dangerous animal-human virus. Two control animals developed an AIDS-like disease. Matthias Schnell, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at Jefferson ...

Investigating the measles virus as a tool to kill multiple myeloma

... either have had a prior measles infection or been vaccinated against it. In the 1970s, measles infections were observed to cause regression of pre-existing cancerous tumors in children. This information was noted, but nothing was done to study this phenomenon until the late 1990s, when, under the direction...

Biodegradable microspheres deliver time release vaccines, stimulate different immune response

...s payload," says Wilson-Welder. The researchers vaccinated mice with microspheres loaded with ovalbumin, a protein from chicken eggs, and measured immune reponse. While mice exhibited the expected antibody response, the researchers also noticed something unexpected. The vaccine enhanced another type of imm...

Vaccine prevents prion disease in mice

...almonella. For the study, the mice were orally vaccinated with a safe, attenuated Salmonella strain, which e...ormally takes 120 days for mice that have not been vaccinated to develop the disease. "These are promising findings," said study author Thomas Wisniewski, MD,...

US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows

...what proportion of the population would need to be vaccinated in order to prevent a pandemic, none of these models have shown whether this critical coverage can actually be reached. What has been missing, according to Blower, a mathematical and evolutionary biologist, is the human factor. The human factor i...

Smallpox outbreak: How long would it take for vaccines to protect people? Would it work?

...f illness." Unlike some other diseases, getting vaccinated following exposure to smallpox could provide prote...e, for the flu vaccine to work, people need to get vaccinated before being exposed to influenza. The currently licensed smallpox vaccine, however, provides benefi...

Innovative smallpox vaccine research study to be conducted at Case Medical Center

...ed toward adults ages 18 to 34 who have never been vaccinated against the disease. The study is the first of its...eral good health and must not have previously been vaccinated against smallpox. Smallpox is a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease characterized b...

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