… State Journal (http://bit.ly/2lwuVYp ) reported. The goal is to bring in additional federal money and explore how health, agriculture, climate and other interests are influenced – and possibly can be improved – by living things we can see only under …
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How to Cope with Allergies & Asthma in 2017
In 2017, Live Science is bringing our readers a monthly series on personal health goals, with tips and tricks we’ve gathered from the many health experts we’ve interviewed. Each month, we’ll focus on a different goal, and the goal for March is exercise.
GW researchers develop way to test potency of recombinant hookworm vaccines
… senior author and professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. “We think it’s important for researchers and vaccine manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries such as Brazil or …
Why asthmatics are less able to fight off flu
London, March 10 – People with asthma are likely to have worse symptoms when they get the flu and are more likely to end up in hospitals because of immune system differences, researchers said. The study showed that when exposed to the flu virus, people with asthma have weaker immune systems, whereas healthy people show a strong immune system-triggering reaction.
There’s a patch that could fix your peanut allergy problem
A treatment for one of the most common food allergies out there just got even more data that it’s working. Roughly 1.5 million children in the US are allergic to peanuts, an allergy that can often be so severe that even the smallest amount of contact can set off an extreme reaction.
Richard L. Wang Named Chief Executive Officer of Fosun Kite…
Richard L. Wang Named Chief Executive Officer of Fosun Kite Biotechnology Co., Ltd., a Joint Venture to Lead Development of Axicabtagene Ciloleucel and Other Engineered T-Cell Therapies for Treatment of Cancers in China Kite Pharma, Inc., today announced that Richard L. Wang, Ph.D. will be appointed Chief Executive Officer of Fosun Kite Biotechnology Co., Ltd, the company’s 50/50 owned joint venture in China with Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. .The companies announced the formation of the joint venture in early 2017 to develop, manufacture and commercialize autologous T-cell therapies to treat cancer in China, including Kite’s lead cell therapy product candidate, axicabtagene ciloleucel.
International Certification Standards body Allergy Standards Limited…
… booth at the AAAAI’s Annual Meeting, which is expected to draw up to 5,000 allergists, immunologists, and related health professionals. Dr. McKeon will join AAFA CEO Dr. Cary Sennett to address a symposium with over 80 attendees. Dr. McKeon and his …
Novan Announces Presentation of Anti-Viral Data at International Papillomavirus Conference
Novan, Inc. today announced that preclinical data demonstrating the anti-viral effects of the Company’s nitric oxide-releasing drug candidates will be presented at the 31st International Papillomavirus Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Thomas Broker, Ph.D., and Louise Chow, Ph.D., both of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, or UAB, are scheduled to present “Antiviral Efficacy of Nitric Oxide-Releasing Drug Candidates in Suppressing Productive Infection by HPV-18 in the Organotypic Epithelial Raft Culture Model System” on Thursday, Mar. 2. Drs.
Drug combination defeats dengue, Ebola in mice, Stanford study finds
… now at Gilead Sciences Inc., and Gregory Neveu, PhD, now at the University of Lyon and French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. The reason the drugs used in the study are able to combat infections by such different viruses is that …
SBP researchers identify new regulator of innate immune response to foreign invaders
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have identified a new regulator of the innate immune response – the immediate, natural immune response to foreign invaders. The study, published recently in Nature Microbiology , suggests that therapeutics that modulate the regulator – an immune checkpoint – may represent the next generation of antiviral drugs, vaccine adjuvants, cancer immunotherapies, and treatments for autoimmune disease.
Why Men Are Much Worse At Being Sick Than Women
… Sabra Klein, associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “It isn’t always the presence of the microbe or the presence of the virus that makes us sick,” says Klein. “It’s our immune …
How your unborn baby’s sex could impact your health
… at the Queen’s University Department of Medicine. Ellis said there are known steps that women can take to minimize health risks during pregnancy such as maintaining a healthy balanced diet and avoiding smoking. For those like Fox who do end up …
Could there FINALLY be a cure for the common cold?
Experts say they have discovered the hidden code for the cold which could pave the way for a treatment being available. However it could still be some time off yet, scientists working on the pioneering study estimated a cure for the virus could hit shops in ten years’ time.
NSAIDs could potentially be repurposed as life-saving treatment for sepsis, research suggests
… It kills as many as half of those who contract it, sometimes within days, according to the National Institutes of Health. As the number of cases rises, particularly in intensive care units, pharmaceutical companies have been scrambling to develop a …
Scientists pinpoint blood sugar-Alzheimer’s ‘tipping point’
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Hamburg chiropractor to celebrate 30
… his 30th anniversary, Dr. Karas has no plans for retirement or even semi-retirement. According to him, “health is wealth” and he looks forward to the future and expanding the practice to include an associate, an individual massage area …
Research may show new ways to repress inflammation at outset
Researchers at the University of Tubingen, working with colleagues in other parts of Germany and in the United States, have identified an enzyme as a kind of biological gauge regulating inflammation in the human body. Professor Alexander Weber of the Interfaculty Institute of Cell Biology says the enzyme – Bruton’s tyrosine kinase or BTK – is switched on when an inflammation occurs in the body, playing a key role in the inflammation’s subsequent development.
Antiviral Therapeutics Technologies, Markets and Companies Report…
Dublin, Feb. 21, 2017 — Research and Markets has announced the addition of Jain PharmaBiotech’s new report “Antiviral Therapeutics – Technologies, Markets and Companies” to their offering. This report reviews the current state-of-art of antiviral approaches including vaccines, pharmaceuticals and innovative technologies for delivery of therapeutics.
Cancer cells adapt nerve cell mechanisms to fuel aggressive tumor growth and spread
How we think and fall in love are controlled by lightning-fast electrochemical signals across synapses, the dynamic spaces between nerve cells. Until now, nobody knew that cancer cells can repurpose tools of neuronal communication to fuel aggressive tumor growth and spread.
Myriad’s Prolaris Test Significantly Improves the Risk…
Myriad Genetics, Inc. , a global leader in personalized medicine, today announced new data demonstrating the utility of the ProlarisA test to more accurately classify mortality risk and guide the management of newly diagnosed men with prostate cancer. The data are being presented at the 2017 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Molecular aid to insulin secretion identified
Blood sugar triggers the secretion of insulin from cells in the pancreas, a process that is impaired in diabetes. A team of Yale researchers have identified a mechanism at the membranes of these pancreatic cells that controls this fundamental function.
Analyzing copies of genes may offer new therapeutic approaches for ovarian cancer
… the pathway that stood out was autophagy — a natural process of cell death that helps maintain normal cellular health. Ovarian cancer cells use autophagy all of the time, but also lose several copies of autophagy genes resulting in a compromised …
SBP scientists identify autophagy linked to beneficial effects of enduring temporary stress
Biologists have known for decades that enduring a short period of mild stress makes simple organisms and human cells better able to survive additional stress later in life. Now, scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have found that a cellular process called autophagy is critically involved in providing the benefits of temporary stress.
An antibiotic-resistant strain of the E. coli bacteria. Photo: Centres for Disease Control
Drug resistant bacteria can be found easily in China’s poultry production chain – from hatcheries to supermarkets – according to recent research by scientists from China, the US and Europe, underscoring the need for Beijing to control the use of antibiotics. Superbugs are bacteria that are resistant to antibiotic drugs.
Joint venture to produce and sell Cuban vaccines to treat cancer seeks investors
The joint venture – the first in the field of biotechnology – would produce vaccines to fight cancer developed with Cuban technology. U.S. clinical trials of the CIMAvax vaccine against lung cancer began in January, under an authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.
New transparent Micro-ring device could measure biological activities at back of the eye
… it with patients. The team continues to improve the device with support from Northwestern, the National Institutes of Health, Argonne National Laboratory, and the National Science Foundation. As word spreads about the device, about a dozen …
Epidemiology, environmental risk factors and genetics of Parkinson’s disease.
To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. Parkinson’s disease is a frequent neurodegenerative disease with a premotor phase that lasts several years.
Progress Toward an HIV Cure Highlighted in Special Issue of AIDS Research & Human Retroviruses
… on ultrasound in the article entitled “Association of T Cell and Macrophage Activation with Arterial Vascular Health in HIV (http://online.liebertpub.com/ .” “It is becoming clear that although HIV-infected individuals can control the amount of …
Study finds new bacterial strain can contaminate shellfish
… sick or just a couple making people sick?” She partnered with the federal Food and Drug Administration and public health and with shellfish management agencies in five states on the study to discover the new strain. “We were surprised to learn that …
Newfound Effect of Cancer Drug May Expand its Use
… by a grants from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR PanCAN 13-90-25-VOND), the National Institutes of Health (5-T32 CA 009161-39, 5-T32AI100853-04, and HL007151-36), and a Schwartz Fellowship.
Studies reveal link between rotator cuff disease and genetics
A new study presented this week at the Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Meeting in Las Vegas shows rotator cuff disease might be a heritable trait. Rotator cuff disease is a common disorder that affects 30 to 50 percent of people over the age of 50. The disease often leads to shoulder pain and loss of function.
Genes point to who develops lung disease, study finds
Scientists unveiled a trove of newly-discovered gene variants on Monday to help predict who will most likely develop a killer lung disease, both among smokers and non-smokers. The world’s biggest probe of the genetics of lung health yielded 43 new gene variants linked to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , a major cause of death.
Virginia Tech researchers receive NIH grant to improve malaria drug
As long as parasites continue to mount resistance to malaria drugs, scientists will be faced with the task of developing new, improved pharmaceuticals. A research team from the Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery has received a $431,126 two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to make improved versions of a promising compound called MMV008138, or 8138 for short.
Scientists reveal potential way of boosting immune system’s memory to fight cancer
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OPKO’S GeneDx Announces Research Collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
OPKO Health, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary and business unit, GeneDx, is entering into a collaboration with the Deciphering Developmental Disorder study led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is a non-profit research institute that played a central role in the human genome project.
To smell the immune system: olfaction, autoimmunity and brain involvement.
Aside from its recognition and warning functions, olfaction serves many purposes in the CNS and remains one of the most important means of communication with the environment. In addition to olfactory tract input, the olfactory bulb also receives and provides input to other brain centers that modify neuronal activity.
Jefferson researchers reveal new insight into two states of viral protein
To generate swarms of new viral particles, a virus hijacks a cell into producing masses of self-assembling cages that are then loaded with the genetic blueprint for the next infection. But the picture of how that DNA is loaded into those viral cages, or capsids, was blurry, especially for two of the most common types of DNA virus on earth, bacterial viruses and human herpesvirus.
Research findings could lead to effective repair therapies for peripheral nerve damage
Research published today, 30th January 2017 online in the Journal of Cell Biology , has for the first time identified how a bodily protein allows nerves of the peripheral nervous system to repair following injury. The findings, discovered by research neuroscientists at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and funded by the Medical Research Council, could lead to effective repair therapies for those who have suffered peripheral nerve damage in trauma cases or perhaps via battlefield injuries.
Murine Study Finds Potential Boost for Ovarian Cancer Drug Olaparib
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered that the metabolic enzyme phosphoglycerate mutase 1 helps cancer cells repair their DNA and found that inhibiting PGAM1 sensitizes tumors to the cancer drug Olaparib . Their findings in the study ” Phosphoglycerate mutase 1 regulates dNTP pool and promotes homologous recombination repair in cancer cells ,” which has been published in The Journal of Cell Biology , suggest that this FDA-approved ovarian cancer medicine has the potential to treat a wider range of cancer types than currently indicated.
There’s now a genetic test for women’s fertility called Fertilome
It seems these days that there’s a DNA test for everything – from your wine preferences to testing for what “superhero” genetic variants you might have. And for those interested in seeing how that genetic information could inform their health, the field is starting to expand quickly.