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New Insights Into HIV Immunity Suggest Alternative Approach to Vaccines

New insights by Duke University Medical Center researchers as to how HIV evades the human immune system may offer a new approach for developing HIV vaccines. The findings suggest some HIV vaccines may have failed because they induce a class of antibodies that a patient's own immune system is programmed to destroy. The Duke team discovered that certain broadly protective antibodies, which...

Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity

The final National Institutes of Health (NIH) rule on Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information is wasteful of federal research dollars and a missed opportunity to take advantage of...

Bee mites suppress bee immunity, open door for viruses and bacteria

A non-native bee mite is causing the dramatic and sudden collapse of bee colonies across the country, but Penn State researchers believe they have found the combination of factors that triggers colony deaths which includes suppression of the bee immune system by the mites. The Varroa destructor mite is a honey bee parasite that feeds much like a tick on the body of a bee. The mites are ab...

Community MRSA is re-emergence of 1950s pandemic, study suggests

An early type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that caused a global epidemic of infections in the 1950s has re-emerged as one of the community-acquired MRSA 'superbugs', according to a study published in The Lancet tomorrow (Saturday 2 April 2005). This "re-equipping and re-emergence" of a clone that caused a pandemic 40-50 years ago could mean that community acquired MRSA will spread fast...

High-dose flu vaccines appear to safely boost immunity in elderly

High-dose influenza vaccines may increase elderly patients' immune response without significant adverse effects, offering this vulnerable population additional protection against the flu, according to an article in the May 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Vaccines containing inactivated influenza virus have been available for 50 years to prevent...

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Separation of 16S rRNA PCR Products From a Model Community Using Temporal Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis, Rev A

Menu B. Leddy, Biotechnology Research Department,Orange County Water District, 10500 Ellis Ave., Fountain Valley, CA 92708 Identification and characterization of bacterial species from membrane biofilms has been a microbiological challenge. A vast majority (>90%) of bacterial cells from membrane...

Corporate Social Responsibility - Burden, sham, or golden opportunity?

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an surging trend that has taken corporate boardrooms by storm. Government regulation in some countries along with pressure from myriad interest groups around the world is driving an increase in social responsibility initiatives and reporting. In 2005, according to Professor Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School, 360 d...

New Urbanism: Community planning Feng Shui

The need to have a rebirth of the American municipality. The need to create a solid platform for economic...

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International community warns India on HIV situation

The International Community has warned India that it is time to treat the HIV situation as a national emergency. Experts attending the Peoples Health Assembly at Dhaka, Bangladesh , have cautioned India not to be complacent about the looming HIV crisis in the country. Rebuffing the optimistic statement of Union Health Minister, Dr.C.P.Takhur, the experts said if corrective measures are not taken...

Stress reduces your immunity- startling but true!!!!!

In a startling expose, new research into how our immunity works says stress reduces our immunity and makes us more vulnerable to diseases. For long we have agreed that stress is bad for our health but this aspect of stress decreasing our immune status is sure to cause a lot of concern. With the advent of HIV/AIDS and other immune-disorder related conditions claming many victims every...

Omega-3 fatty acids impair immunity

Taking large amounts of omega-3 fatty acids may be unwise for those with weakened immunity.Researchers at the University of Missouri, Columbia, have been studying omega-3s for many years now and know that one of their effects is to damp down inflammation. That's why fish oils - rich in omega-3s - often benefit those with arthritis, a painful inflammatory condition of the joints. Yet the inflamm...

Severe stress weakens immunity

People undergoing oppressive stress have measurable anomalies in their immune system that make them more vulnerable to illness. It's widely believed that stress may impair health, although the underlying// mechanisms are not clear. Now researchers at Washington University in the US reveal that exposure to chronic stress has a specific effect on immunity. When an inflammatory response...

Parasitic infections and human immunity link found

Parasites infect human beings and the human body starts on its immunity system to fight the infection.// Till recently, little was known about how the parasitic infections are fought by the human immunity system. A recent research done by the researchers of Yale School of Medicine had identified a molecule that triggers the immune system and helps the body fight the infections caused by the paras...

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Autoimmunity Screening Panel 1

Description:The ImmunoDOT Autoimmunity Screening Panel 1 is an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test for screening and detectionof autoantibodies against various specific nuclear antigens (ANA, DNA, SS-A/SS-B, RNP/Sm) in serum, and is usedas an aid in the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), andSjgren's syndrome....
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ImmunoDOT Autoimmunity Screening Panel 4

Description:The ImmunoDOT Autoimmunity Screening Panel 4 is an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test for screening and detection of autoantibodies against various specific extractable nuclear antigens (SS-A, SS-B, RNP/Sm, and Sm) in serum, and is used as an aid in the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), and Sjgren's syndrome....
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ImmunoDOT Autoimmunity Screening Panel 6

Description:The ImmunoDOT Autoimmunity Screening Panel 6 is an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test for screening and detection of autoantibodies against various specific nuclear antigens (SS-A, SS-B, RNP/Sm, Sm, Jo-1, and Scl-70) in serum, and is used as an aid in the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), Sjgren's syndrome and other rheumatoid diseases....
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ImmunoDOT™ DNA/ENA Autoimmunity Screening Panel

Description:The ImmunoDOT Autoimmunity Screening Panel 1 is an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test for screening and detection of autoantibodies against various specific nuclear antigens (ANA, DNA, SS-A/SS-B, RNP/Sm) in serum, and is used as an aid in the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), and Sjgren's syndrome....
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Autoimmunity ENA/DNA Screening Panel

Description:ImmunoDOT is dot-blot assay system combining microwell EIA and western blot advantages. Like microwell, a purified antigen set at a clinically meaningful cutoff is applied to nitrocellulose membrane. Reactivity is detected using the same reagent system used in most western blot assays. ENA/DNA combines antigens detected in Auto 4 detecting the four common extractable nuclear antigens (ENA...
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New Flu Vaccine from PepTcell Could Provide Immunity Against All Strains of Influenza Virus

HIGH WYCOMBE, UK 18th June 2007-Previously undisclosedpre-clinical data showing how a new flu vaccine has the potentialto protect against all strains of influenza, including pandemic andannual, was presented today by PepTcell, at the 2007 Options forthe Control of Influenza VI (Options) Conference, in Toronto,Canada. The pre-cli...

New Flu Vaccine From PepTcell Could Provide Immunity Against All Strains of Influenza Virus

Data Presented at Leading Influenza Conference HIGH WYCOMBE, England, June 18, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Previouslyundisclosed pre-clinical data showing how a new flu vaccine has thepotential to protect against all strains of influenza, includingpandemic and annual, was presented today by PepTcell, at the 2007Options for the Control of Influenza VI (Options) Conference, inToronto, Canada....

July Issue of Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Highlights Study of Factive Tablets for Five-Day Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 12, 2007 - Results from thesuccessful clinical trial of Oscient Pharmaceuticals' (Nasdaq:OSCI) FACTIVE(R) (gemifloxacin mesylate) tablets for the five-daytreatment of community-acquired pneumonia of mild to moderateseverity (CAP) have been published in the July issue of thepeer-reviewed Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, currentlyavailable in advance...

Vaxfectin-formulated Measles DNA Vaccine Elicits Long-term Protection and Sterilizing Immunity in Nonhuman Primates

SEATTLE, May 31, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VicalIncorporated today announced that a measles DNA vaccine formulatedwith the company's Vaxfectin(TM) adjuvant elicited protectivelevels of neutralizing antibodies in juvenile (1 - 2 year old)nonhuman primates confirmed by complete protection followingchallenge more than one year after vaccination, and sterilizingimmunity as evidenced by...

Alnylam and Stanford University Scientists Discover New Role for microRNAs (miRNAs) in T Cell Biology and Immunity

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 22, 2007 - AlnylamPharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeuticscompany, announced today publication of a study in the journal Cellby Alnylam and Stanford University scientists on the role of miRNAsin immunity. In the pre-clinical study, a specific miRNA, miR-181a,was shown to play an important role in controlling T cellresponsivenes...

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