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Chemistry World February 5, 2014 Jenifer Mizen |
Protein-free and low sugar -- not a new diet, a new vaccine A Streptococcus pneumonia vaccine with fewer sugar units and no antigenic protein is not only easier to produce but could also induce a superior immune response to the vaccine currently in clinical use. |
Chemistry World March 23, 2009 Nina Notman |
First auto carbohydrate synthesiser German researchers have unveiled the first fully automated carbohydrate synthesizer, which they hope will advance development of carbohydrate-based vaccines for the developing world. |
Chemistry World January 13, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Click chemistry reveals sugar synthesis in live animals US researchers have used 'click chemistry' to attach chemical tags to complex sugar molecules in the cells of live mice, allowing the synthesis of the sugars - glycans - within the cells to be tracked. |
Chemistry World August 18, 2011 Helen Bache |
Sugar injection to beat hospital infection A carbohydrate from the surface of the most virulent strain of the bacterium Clostridium difficile has been synthesised by chemists in Germany. The molecule could be used to develop a vaccine against the infection. |
AskMen.com Jacob Franek |
New Cancer Therapies As cancer research explodes, the availability of new and innovative interventions is expanding almost daily. |
Scientific American November 2008 Jessica Wapner |
Cancer Vaccine: Looking Beyond Tumor Size Proponents see hope in changing cancer vaccines' bad reputation |
Scientific American April 10, 2006 Christine Soares |
Turning Yellow Yellow fever shot confers long-lasting immunity, a trait that medical researchers hope to transfer to other kinds of vaccines. |
Reactive Reports Issue 58 |
Anthrax Detector Researchers have developed a detector for anthrax spores based on a monoclonal antibody that recognizes a specific sugar on the bacterium. It might be possible to use this discovery to develop a passive immunization method. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Brian Orelli |
4 Immunotherapies to Watch Just don't go all-in. |
Chemistry World January 16, 2011 Hayley Birch |
Antibodies could lead to MRSA vaccine US scientists have developed antibodies against a protein belonging to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. |
BusinessWeek April 30, 2007 Catherine Arnst |
Teaching The Body To Fix Itself Cancer vaccines still in trial stages may be able to prolong life with few side effects, but the FDA has yet to be convinced. |
The Motley Fool January 11, 2005 Charly Travers |
The Future of Cancer Vaccines Biotech companies developing cancer vaccines have been in investors' doghouses for a long time. Can a vaccine help stave off forms of the disease? |
Smithsonian April 2007 Eric Jaffe |
The Nic Fix Put down your lighters and pick up your health care cards -- nicotine vaccines are in the works |
Chemistry World December 9, 2011 Jennifer Newton |
Turning Bacteria's Shield Into a Weapon Against it Scientists in Germany have synthesised the core part of a sugar compound produced by the pathogenic bacteria responsible for meningitis - Neisseria meningitides - which could be used in a vaccine for meningococcal diseases, in particular meningitis B. |
Chemistry World January 17, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Sugars synthesised with help of promiscuous enzyme European researchers have discovered a new way to make synthetically elusive sugar molecules that could lead to novel vaccine candidates and other medically important compounds. |
Chemistry World February 6, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Better Detection of DNA Synthesis Researchers in the US have developed a new way to detect DNA synthesis in living cells by using click chemistry -- the concept of reacting together two 'high energy' molecules that 'click' together efficiently under mild conditions. |
Chemistry World August 3, 2006 Bea Perks |
Sugar-Coated Antibodies The fate of the prey captured by our body's guardian antibodies can be determined by sugar molecules found on the antibody's surface. The news has come as a surprise to immunologists, who were unsure of these sugar molecules' exact role. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Ebola vaccine shown to be safe in humans GlaxoSmithKline's experimental Ebola vaccine is capable of triggering an immune response in humans, according to a new study. |
Chemistry World September 3, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
New HIV vaccine hope A team of scientists in the US has discovered two new antibodies that could lead to an HIV vaccine. |
Chemistry World September 26, 2007 Victoria Gill |
HIV Vaccines 'Will Not Work' Just days after US drug firm Merck revealed its leading HIV vaccine candidate had flopped in clinical trials, a leading immunologist has predicted that many other vaccines in the pipeline will also fail because their design is similarly flawed. |
Chemistry World April 17, 2008 Nuala Mora |
World's first therapeutic cancer vaccine approved In move that will be a fillip to cancer vaccine developers, US biotech Antigenics has won Russian approval to market Oncophage to treat kidney cancer. |
Chemistry World December 17, 2010 James Mitchell Crow |
Drug delivery: from needles to nanorods? Gold nanorods warmed by beams of infrared light could be the ideal way to deliver drugs through the skin, researchers in Japan have discovered. |
Chemistry World February 12, 2014 Manisha Lalloo |
Synthetic strategy targets 'undruggable' small RNAs Chemists in the US have found a way to predict small molecules that can target short pieces of RNA involved in some diseases, such as cancer. |
Managed Care June 2007 Thomas Morrow |
Dendritic Cell Vaccine Hits FDA Roadblock Questions about study design and analysis prompted the FDA to postpone action on Provenge, a treatment for advanced prostate cancer. |
Chemistry World June 9, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Artificial virus silences genes Scientists in Korea have created an artificial virus that can target the nucleus of cancer cells and knock out specific genes. |
Chemistry World December 3, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Caged toxin for safer, better bacterial vaccines Researchers in the US have developed a new way of vaccinating against bacterial toxins by caging them in hybrid nanoparticles. |
Wired September 2002 Amanda Griscom |
Take These Genes and Call Me in the Morning Gene vaccines may be relatively new, but they're the logical outgrowth of two familiar strands of medical science. |
Chemistry World February 7, 2006 Jon Evans |
Plant-Derived Drug Approved in US Dow AgroSciences has become the first biotech firm to gain US regulatory approval for a plant-derived drug. The company claims it will be able to manufacture many other vaccines, for animal and human diseases, using its plant-based production technology. |
The Motley Fool May 10, 2005 Charly Travers |
Dendreon in the Spotlight The small biotech's prostate cancer drug is in phase 3 development. Is this company worth investing in? |
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Pettypiece & Gibson |
Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Bristol-Myers' new melanoma drug may be a "game changer." |
Chemistry World April 1, 2008 Michael Gross |
Aluminium's Vaccine Boost Explained Researchers based in the Netherlands and Belgium have worked out how aluminium salts, used to boost the effectiveness of vaccines, stimulate the immune system. |
Bio-IT World June 15, 2003 Malorye Branca |
A View to a Kill Genomics, bioinformatics, and novel laboratory techniques are converging to boost vaccine research against a new wave of emerging diseases, natural and man-made. Now, will in silico modeling ramp up sufficiently to further speed vaccine discovery? |
Chemistry World July 25, 2008 Olivia Walker |
Engineered antibodies could cut chemotherapy risks US scientists have cut the side-effects of cancer treatment in animal trials by carefully controlling the number of drug molecules attached to the antibodies used for chemotherapy. |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2004 David Nierengarten |
Cell Genesys Boosted Cell Genesys's shares jump a day late and a dollar higher. |
The Motley Fool July 22, 2005 Karl Thiel |
Cancer Drug: A Shot at Success Cancer vaccine pioneer Dendreon delivered news yesterday that its investors have been anxiously awaiting: final three-year survival data from a phase 3 study of Provenge, the company's flagship prostate cancer vaccine. |
Chemistry World July 2010 Hayley Birch |
Special Report: Health breakthroughs of the decade New discoveries have been made with cancer vaccines, genomics, statin drugs, allosteric modulators, and RNA interference during the last decade. |
Chemistry World August 7, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
RNA stops HIV in its tracks Scientists have successfully used a biochemical Trojan horse to smuggle killer sequences of RNA into immune cells to mug invading HIV, stopping infection in its tracks |
Chemistry World March 4, 2011 Elinor Richards |
Laser treatment for late-stage cancer Scientists from China, the US and Peru claim to have successfully treated late-stage breast cancer patients using laser immunotherapy to stimulate patients' own immune systems to fight the cancer. |
Chemistry World August 31, 2011 Hayley Birch |
Smallpox vaccine virus puts cancer in its sights The results of a human cancer therapy trial show for the first time that tumors can be targeted and infected by engineered viruses, without damage to surrounding tissues. |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Dumpster Diving in Pfizer's Trash Investors are probably overreacting to Pfizer's decision, but only time -- and clinical trials -- will tell. |
Chemistry World March 16, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Nanodumbbells Target Cancer Cells US scientists have designed nanoparticles that function like 'guided missiles' in the targeted destruction of breast cancer cells. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Richard Saltus |
T-Cell Booster Kits A bioengineer remodels cell surfaces to prod the immune system. |
Chemistry World May 13, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Step towards a spider venom vaccine Brazilian researchers have engineered a protein that should make producing antivenoms to treat spider bites both cheaper and simpler. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Sarah C.P. Williams |
The Twists and Turns of Immunity Fred Alt has built a career making sense of the immune system -- specifically, the diverse antibodies that fight off invading molecules, from viruses to cancer cells to pollen. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2010 Michael Gross |
Kiss of death for cancer cells Scientists have deciphered the surprising structure of the perforin pore, which delivers the 'kiss of death' to virus-infected cells and cancer cells in the body. |
Chemistry World February 9, 2007 Victoria Gill |
Africa's First Large-Scale HIV Vaccine Trial The first large-scale clinical trial of an HIV vaccine will involve around 3000 participants in five selected sites in South Africa. It will compare the effectiveness of the vaccine at reducing HIV infection compared to a placebo. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 Ben Harder |
Seeking Immunity Pathogens like West Nile virus show no respect for borders. But a new class of vaccines may soon keep them in check. |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Joanna Breitstein |
Cervical Cancer: Endagered Species Preventive care is more efficient than treating disease after the fact. Now this paradigm takes hold in cancer with new HPV vaccines. Now that the science is in order, Merck and GSK face several important challenges in conditioning the market. |
Chemistry World August 6, 2015 Ida Emilie Steinmark |
Bee immune system discovery points way to pollinator 'vaccines' Bees use an egg yolk protein to prime their offspring's immune system against different pathogens, Finnish researchers have discovered. |
Chemistry World August 2011 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Heroes and heroin Science dream team... Heroin vaccine... |