Vaccine
Vaccines are biologicals that provide active acquired immunity to specific infectious diseases. They are typically composed of weakened or dead microorganisms, their toxins, or surface proteins that resemble those found on the microbe that causes the disease. The body’s immune system recognizes these agents as foreign, destroying and remembering them. As a result, the immune system can more easily identify and fight these pathogens when they are encountered in the future. Vaccines have played a very important role in controlling and, in some cases, eradicating many infectious diseases that were once widespread and lethal, such as smallpox, polio, and measles. They are a cornerstone of public health and preventive medicine, significantly reducing the incidence of infectious diseases and mortality worldwide.
Vaccine
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New vaccine shown promise in preventing secondary strokes after an ischemic stroke
New research published in journal Hypertension shows that vaccine called S100A9 may be able to replace oral blood thinners to reduce the risk of secondary strokes in patients with recent ischemic stroke. Japanese researchers successfully tested an experimental vaccine…
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Researchers create heat stable vaccines using silica
Researchers at the University of Bath, working with colleagues at the University of Newcastle, have created a technique which can keep vaccines intact at high temperatures by encasing them in silica cages. When a protein in solution is…
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Current vaccination trials using Zika Purified Inactivated Virus (ZPIV) vaccine
The first of five early stage clinical trials to test the safety and ability of an investigational Zika vaccine candidate called the Zika Purified Inactivated Virus (ZPIV) vaccine to generate an immune system response has begun at…
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Scientists find why it is difficult to create vaccine for Hepatitis C virus
Researchers have been trying for decades to develop a vaccine against the globally endemic hepatitis C virus (HCV). Now scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered one reason why success has so far been elusive.…
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New vaccine targets found for Plasmodium vivax Malaria
Researchers have identified potential vaccine targets in the Duffy binding protein of Plasmodium vivax, a major step towards developing a vaccine against a malaria strain that infected over 13 million people last year. This discovery, made by…
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