My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
10 AUG 2012 Vaccine research shows vigilance needed against evolution of more-virulent malaria Malaria parasites evolving in vaccinated laboratory mice become more virulent, according to research at Penn State University.…
No evidence that seasonal flu vaccines protected against the harbor seal virusAvian H3N8 is also believed to have triggered a human flu pandemic in the 1880s.St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital-led…
Veterinary vaccines found to combine into new viruses, prompting regulatory response Research from the University of Melbourne has shown that two different vaccine viruses- used simultaneously to control the same…
30 Jan 2012 Annals of Internal Medicine early release Philadelphia — Scientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 (commonly known as bird flu) to be readily transmitted between humans.…
Experiments using virulent avian flu strains pose risk of accidental release // PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 20-May-2014 Research in mammals that aims to prevent future influenza pandemics raises ethical, public health…
" Can act like wild poliovirus and continue the threat of contagion " November 7, 2011 Health professionals and researchers across the globe believe they are on the verge of…
Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, introduced DNA molecules not found in nature to a common bacterium The E. coli bugs are able to grow…
13 January 2011 by Debora MacKenzie - entered the brain directly through nasal nerves [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350"] A diagram of Prion Propagation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] You catch flu by…
Researchers have resurrected a prehistoric version of the enzyme uricase Uricase can break down uric acid, which can cause kidney stones and gout It is not produced in humans because…
Public release date: 7-Sep-2010 - Infants who received heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV-7) at 2, 4, and 11 months were more likely than unvaccinated controls to have nasopharyngeal acquisition of…
Public release date: 26-Aug-2010 - "Indications of a time link between vaccinations and narcolepsy cases have been seen, but an actual link has not been established - Worldwide, at least…
Public release date: 23-Jun-2010 - . Our research shows these viruses can be as pathogenic and transmissible as wild-type polioviruses and outbreaks must be responded to with just as much…
Conflicts of Interest - A joint investigation by the BMJ and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has uncovered evidence that raises troubling questions about how WHO managed conflicts of interest…
Public release date: 22-Apr-2010 - Attenuated live vaccines that protect poultry against Newcastle Disease may be altering the genetic makeup of the wild virus strains - “Our findings indicate that…
HRR Commentary: A Small Bio-tech company "The Medicines Company" that makes niche blood thinners and has no bioweapons experience. Buys a company on Dec 4 2013 who makes a rather unpractical,…
Public release date: 29-Oct-2009 - "Preventing infection with seasonal influenza viruses by vaccination might prevent the induction of heterosubtypic immunity to pandemic strains - Infection with "seasonal" influenza A could…
Public release date: 6-Apr-2010 - associated with an increased risk of approximately 68% for pH1N1 disease. In September 2009, news stories reported that researchers in Canada had found an increased…
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200"] Goalfinder Part2-pig-infection-cycle (Photo credit: gfinder)[/caption] Public release date: 23-Mar-2010- AN UPDATE FROM 2010 both vaccine from Merck and GSK contained porcine circovirus -1 and porcine circovirus…
IMAGE: This shows zebras graze in Etosha National Park, Namibia. Zebras can fall victim to anthrax. The new bacteriophage virus called Tsamsa, isolated from zebra carcasses…
Posted: 01/14/2014 1:26 pm By Charles Gersbach, Assistant Professor, and Tom Katsouleas, Dean, Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering Elaborate competitions to build the best robot or design cages to…
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