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Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) does not significantly reduce mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus when taken during pregnancy and after delivery.
Results from two Phase 1 clinical trials show an experimental Zika vaccine is safe and induces an immune response in healthy adults.
Researchers have discovered that a virus-like particle vaccine can prime the body's immune response and prevent the severe respiratory diseases...
Scientists are developing a vaccine by targeting strains of S. pneumoniae...
Leukaemia patients who were vaccinated against influenza were just as likely as their unvaccinated peers to develop flu, suggesting that additional steps are necessary to protect high-risk individuals...
Results from a Phase 3 efficacy study in India of the rotavirus vaccine Rotasil showed the vaccine to be safe, against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis...
Investigational therapy directly kills tumour cells and unmasks them to the body's defences.
Research published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine suggests potential treatment for glioblastoma
Large-scale downstream processing of viruses for clinical applications poses challenges different from those for many other biotherapeutics. These challenges mostly arise from the size and complexity of the virus...
Duke researchers used a bivalent virus from chicken cells that packaged twice as much protein as a monovalent virus, and vaccinated mice with either the bivalent or monovalent vaccine
21 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
A study from University Hospital of Saint-Étienne in France reveals that mobile devices are often also contaminated by viral RNA...
30 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists behind the first global distribution maps of two species of dengue and chikungunya-carrying mosquitoes warn they are spreading to new areas...
12 June 2015 | By Victoria White
ORYX's Phase I/IIa trial assessing oncolytic parvovirus H1 as a treatment for patients with glioblastoma multiforme has been successfully completed...
6 August 2014 | By Frost & Sullivan
“The Zaire Ebola virus causes a highly contagious and lethal hemorrhagic fever leading to the death of the infected individuals..."
13 December 2011 | By Nouf N. Laqtom, University of Edinburgh & King Abdulaziz University and Amy H. Buck, University of Edinburgh
microRNAs (miRNA) are a class of non-coding RNA that regulate the precise amounts of proteins expressed in a cell at a given time. These molecules were discovered in worms in 1993 and only known to exist in humans in the last decade. Despite the youth of the miRNA field, miRNA…
