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Immune History Influences Flu Vaccine Effectiveness
New research on why the influenza vaccine was only modestly effective in recent years shows that immune history with the flu influences a person's response to the vaccine.
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Psoriasis Drug Also Reduces Aortic Inflammation
An antibody used to treat the autoimmune skin disease psoriasis is also effective at reducing aortic inflammation, a key marker of future risk of major cardiovascular events.
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Putting the Brain at the Center of Anesthesiology
Emery N. Brown explains how statistics and neuroscience improve anesthesiology at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting.
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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Could Serve as Cancer Vaccine
Induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, are a keystone of regenerative medicine. Outside the body, they can be coaxed to become many different types of cells and tissues that can help repair damage due to trauma or disease. Now, a study in mice suggests another use for iPS cells: training the immune system to attack or even prevent tumors.
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Absolute Antibody and Kerafast Merge Increasing Access to Unique Reagents and Recombinant Antibody Technology
Absolute Antibody Ltd., and Kerafast Inc., have announced a merger of the two companies. The merger brings together two companies with a shared commitment to improving the selection of research tools available to the scientific community.
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Strategic Partnership for the Development of an Interferon-alpha Human Autoantibody
ImmunoQure, a biotech company focused on the research and development of human autoantibodies as therapeutics for the treatment of common human diseases and the international pharmaceutical company Servier today announced the establishment of a Worldwide, exclusive partnership for the development of a therapeutic autoantibody neutralizing interferon-alpha.
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Timing of Measles Vaccine Important for Overall Child Survival Rates
In the largest study to date on children in a low/middle income country, research finds that the timing of a measles vaccine in an overall vaccination schedule can have a profound impact on child survival rates beyond protecting against measles infection.
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Lonza to Establish Cell- and Gene-Therapy Centers of Excellence to Accelerate Growth
Lonza will establish Centers of Excellence for Cell and Gene Therapy to support and accelerate the growth of this priority area for the company.
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Heroin Vaccine Blocks Lethal Overdose
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have achieved a major milestone toward designing a safe and effective vaccine to both treat heroin addiction and block lethal overdose of the drug.
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Cancer Killing Clue Could Lead to More Powerful Immunotherapies
New research could help to safely adapt a new immunotherapy - currently only effective in blood cancers - for the treatment of solid cancers, such as notoriously hard-to-treat brain tumours.
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