Scientists at the US National Institute for Bioimaging and Bioengineering have developed a nanovaccine to fight cancer. A compound that causes immune cells to attack the tumor is delivered to the lymph nodes by the protein albumin. The researchers' article was published in the journal Nature Communications, briefly described in ...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed an executive order to fight flu in the state, writes ABC News. The order will allow pharmacists to administer influenza vaccines to children between the ages of two and eighteen. Over the past week, officials say the state had ...
The Zika virus that caused panic in Miami last summer is back, but only in one sexually transmitted case caused by a mosquito bite in another country, the Florida Department of Health said Friday. Although the patient has not traveled recently, officials stated ...
A federal expert committee on Wednesday recommended a new and more effective shingles vaccine to protect those in their 50s and older, The Washington Post writes. The Advisory Committee also stated that the new Shingrix vaccine would be preferred over the existing Zostavax vaccine as it ...
On March 31, the US National Institutes of Health announced volunteers for the next round of trials with an experimental DNA vaccine to combat the Zika virus. This is a completely new kind of vaccine, Share America reports. Traditionally, vaccines are produced using dead or attenuated virus for training ...
Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley conducted a study that showed that very soon doctors will not need syringes for vaccination. Medical technologies have developed quite enough to ensure that all the necessary substances are absorbed in the form of tablets, writes Medik Forum. Oral technique ...
Virginia Bliss is one of the first to receive a new experimental Zika virus vaccine at the Hope Clinic in Atlanta. She is one of a whole army of volunteers on whom doctors have high hopes in their joint fight against the virus. 80 healthy men ...
The demand for Zika virus testing has doubled from last month and continues to grow. In this regard, private commercial laboratories received emergency permission to conduct tests. But this does not mean that everyone can take the test. According to the rules of the Center ...
A universal cancer vaccine, which was developed by German scientists, stopped the growth of tumors in three patients with skin cancer (melanoma). This is evidenced by the results of a study published on the Nature website. RNA nanoparticles became the main component of the vaccine. They get inside the immune cells and ...
A group of scientists in the United States announced the successful testing of the experimental drug TKM-Ebola against Ebola in monkeys: all three primates that received the antidote were completely healed. Researchers at the University of Texas say they infected six monkeys with the Macon virus strain named for ...