Researchers supported by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently determined that people who produce a large amount of antibodies as a result of allergies tend to develop brain tumors less often than their peers who are otherwise health. The new investigation was conducted in order to confirm and refi... |
19 October 2011
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After studies first discovered the existence of potent antibodies in the bodies of some people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), experts are now gearing up to begin an effort of turning these molecules into a potent vaccine. Like all other viruses, HIV infects the body, and triggers a response fro... |
18 July 2011
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Biotechnology pioneer Amgen and Brussels, Belgium-based biopharmaceutical company UCB are working together to analyze the efficiency of a new antibody against bone loss. The condition is affecting all astronauts doing space exploration, regardless of how much time they spend in orbit. During the last shuttle flight e... |
6 July 2011
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A group of experts at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) discovered in a new study that using two antibodies together increased their effectiveness against cancer. The duo had stronger effects than each of the two taken separately.
Both antibodies are targeted directly at prime survival strategies employed by... |
4 June 2011
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The second-largest pharmaceutical company in the world – Merck, has developed an experimental vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus, which proved to be very well-tolerated and to stimulate antibodies, the American Society for Microbiology reports.S. aureus is the most frequent cause of hospital-acquired infecti... |
20 January 2011
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American researchers have developed antibodies against a MRSA protein, which interfere with the growth of the bacteria, and are very “attractive candidates” for the first vaccine against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.Edward Schwarz from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York,... |
17 January 2011
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Not smoking or quitting this vice can only help people's health and here is another reason to consider dropping the cigarette: smoking causes over one third of cases of the most severe and frequent form of rheumatoid arthritis.Swedish researchers studied over 1,200 people with rheumatoid arthritis and 871 people... |
14 December 2010
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A new type of cell that weakens the immune system and protects the body cells from immune system attack, has been found in mice by a team of researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.This could be a major breakthrough in finding a cure for quiet Lupus, and other autoimmune diseases, according to Lup... |
5 October 2010
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Who would've thought that consuming alcohol would be beneficiary for health problems? A study carried out by a team at the University of Sheffield, UK, published online today in the journal Rheumatology confirmed that alcohol consumption reduces the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis.This is the first time ... |
28 July 2010
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Swedish scientists from the Karolinska Institutet have recently determined that one of the primary causes behind a person's risk of stroke is the amount of antibodies he or she has inside their bodies. The new investigation could also carry considerable implications in the fight against the dangerous condition c... |
13 February 2010
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When treating cancer in the brain, delicacy is the operative word. Any and all methods of treatment, be they chemotherapy, surgery or nanoparticle-based alternatives, need(s) to be able to target the diseased cells specifically, and leave the surrounding networks of neurons undamaged. A newly devised technique does j... |
24 August 2009
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Before the best course of treatment for cancer tumors is established, analyzing them is the top priority. Biopsies are at this point the main way to do this, but they consume lots of time and resources, and also offer only a one-angled view of the problem, at a specific point in time. That is precisely why oncologist... |
18 August 2009
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Antibody drugs are among the most potent forms of medication that the world has ever seen, but their efficiency is counteracted by a built-in deficiency – the fact that the actual antibodies inside the drugs tend to clump together if they spend too much time on the shelves, causing them to become ineffective. D... |
30 June 2009
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Scientists and researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in the US, have managed to create a synthetic immune system-like molecule, able to fight the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in monkey test subjects. After being injected with the new chemical, the animals proved able to withstan... |
18 May 2009
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HIV has remained impervious to advancements in medicine over the last 25 years, and all the research paths explored by scientists seem to dead-end at some point. The current approach is to engineer super-molecules made from compounds found outside the human body, and to make them face the virus head-on. A new method ... |
16 March 2009
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