VACCINE FOR SCHMALLENBERG VIRUS ‘AVAILABLE THIS SUMMER’
A vaccine to protect sheep and cattle from a virus spread by midges has been approved by government vets.
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SYNCHROTRON YIELDS ‘SAFER’ VACCINE
British scientists have developed a new method to create an entirely synthetic vaccine which doesn’t rely on using live infectious virus, meaning it is much safer.
QUEENSLAND RESEARCHER DAVID HARRICH DEVELOPS GENE THERAPY WHICH COULD STOP HIV FROM TURNING DEADLY
A Queensland researcher has developed a gene therapy for HIV which has the potential to stop the virus from turning deadly.
TROJAN-HORSE THERAPY ‘COMPLETELY ELIMINATES’ CANCER IN MICE
An experimental “Trojan-horse” cancer therapy has completely eliminated prostate cancer in experiments on mice, according to UK researchers.
VIRUS REBUILDS HEART’S OWN PACEMAKER IN ANIMAL TESTS
A new pacemaker has been built inside a heart by converting beating muscle into cells which can organise the organ’s rhythm, US researchers report.
RESEARCHERS DEVELOP ANTIBODIES TO TREAT EBOLA VIRUS
Researchers say they’re making progress toward a treatment for the dreaded Ebola virus, which recently caused outbreaks in equatorial Africa. Experiments with monkeys using laboratory-engineered disease-fighting agents called monoclonal antibodies […]
FIRST IMAGE OF 3D COMMON COLD VIRUS COULD LEAD TO NEW DRUG TREATMENTS
The first 3D image of a common cold virus made by the fastest computer in the southern hemisphere could lead to new viral drug treatments.
VACCINE DEVELOPED AGAINST EBOLA
Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly form of the Ebola virus.
SCIENTISTS FIND WAY TO “DISARM” AIDS VIRUS
Researchers from the United States and Europe working in laboratories on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) found it is unable to damage the immune system if cholesterol is removed from […]
CRITICAL PROTEIN DISCOVERY COULD HELP PREVENT LETHAL EBOLA VIRUS
Critical Protein Discovery Could Help Prevent Lethal Ebola Virus. An international team of scientists has discovered a biochemical route used by the deadly Ebola virus to infect human cells. Scientists […]
