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Antigens Defined
Substances that cause an immune response in the body. The body "sees" the antigens as harmful or foreign. To fight them, the body produces antibodies, which attack and try to eliminate the antigens.
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Type 1 Diabetes
Published August 29, 2008, 12:57 pm, New York Times
In-Depth From A.D.A.M. Risk Factors An estimated 1 million people in the U.S. have type 1 diabetes, with about 30,000 new cases diagnosed each year. It is much less common than type 2 diabetes, however, consisting of only 5 - 10% of all cases of diabetes.
Intercell Announces Initiation of Further Phase II Clinical Trial of V710 an Investigational Vaccine to Prevent S. ...
Published August 28, 2008, 5:01 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Intercell AG today announced that its collaborator Merck & Co., Inc. has initiated a Phase II clinical trial of V710, an investigational vaccine for the prevention of Staphylococcus aureus infections.
Novel Technology Could Transform Production Of Flu Vaccine With Enhanced Potency, Manufacturing Capacity And ...
Published August 26, 2008, 5:14 am, Medical News Today
VaxInnate Corporation announced that its M2e universal influenza vaccine candidate was safe and immunogenic in its first Phase I clinical trial, raising hopes for a universal influenza vaccine that could provide protection against seasonal and pandemic influenza strains.
IDRI Receives NIH Funding to Design Adjuvants to Improve New TB Vaccine Protection
Published August 26, 2008, 4:00 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
IDRI announced today it has been awarded a $6.3 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , part of the National Institutes of Health , for the development of adjuvant combinations specifically designed to enhance the immune response to new tuberculosis vaccine antigens.
Marrow donor no longer a stranger
Published August 23, 2008, 1:53 am, Toronto Star
A decade ago, Eric Perron was dying of leukemia: he was always sick, was losing weight, and could barely stand up.
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- Duration of Humoral Immunity to Common Viral and Vaccine Antigens: Antiviral antibody responses were remarkably stable, with half-lives ranging from an estimated 50 years for varicella?zost er virus to more than 200 years for other viruses such as measles and mumps. Antibody responses against tetanus and diphtheria antigens waned more quickly, with estimated half-lives of 11 years and 19 years, respectively. B-cell memory was long-lived, but there was no significant correlation between peripheral memory B-cell numbers and antibody levels for five of the eight antigens tested.
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- Toxic myths about vaccines: Good article - excellent comment about means of administering vaccines from Daedalus http://www.sci encebasedmedic ine.org/?p=9#c omment-1384 and comment about MCH1 and 2 and antigens.
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- Mature B Cells Reprogrammed To Stem-cell-like State: Fully mature, differentiated B cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic-stem -cell-like state, without the use of an egg according to a study published in Cell. In previous research, induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells have been created from fibroblasts,
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- MIF Bioinformatics : Tools > PREDICTED ANTIGENIC PEPTIDES. Pedro A Reche: Antigenic prediction
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- Bacteria reveal targets of immune responses quick and direct identification of antigens: The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a widespread herpes virus that infects more than 90 per cent of the worldwide human population. After primary infection, EBV persists for life in the infected human host in a state of latency. In healthy individuals, the im
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