Vaccine Weekly

Addiction Medicine - Immunotherapy for treatment of drug abuse is reviewed

Adenovirus Vaccine - Adenovirus serotypes 4 and 7 vaccine strains were sequenced and compared

Gastroenteritis Vaccine - Shiga toxin subunit::rotavirus fusion protein protects against gastroenteritis

Yellow Fever Vaccine - New developments in flavivirus vaccines are reviewed

Adenovirus Vectors - Infectious mutants accumulate in stocks during propagation of adenoviruses

Adenovirus Vectors - Peptide-presenting libraries allow choice of peptide ligands for viral vector retargeting

Adverse Drug Effects - Relative disparities should be measured in terms of adverse events

Alzheimer Disease - New research in the area of Alzheimer disease detailed

Alzheimer Disease Vaccine - MPL with trehalose dicorynomycolate is effective vaccine adjuvant

Anthrax Vaccines Development - New data illuminates research in anthrax vaccines development

Apoptosis -  Gleditsia sinensis fruit extract induced apoptosis in human carcinoma cells

Apoptosis - Nano neodymium oxide induced cell death in non-small cell lung cancer cells

Aspergillosis - IFN-gamma overexpression promotes Aspergillus clearance in pulmonary aspergillosis

Atherosclerosis - Researchers' data advance atherosclerosis research

Avian Influenza - Pennsylvania governor announces plan to protect residents from avian influenza

Avian Influenza - Viral inactivation method being explored for development of bird flu vaccine

Bladder Cancer Vaccine - Moureau-Rio de Janeiro BCG strain reduces recurrence rate in bladder cancer

Breast Cancer Vaccine - Overexpression of protein fragment sensitizes MDA-MB-231 breast tumor cells to radiation

Bunyamwera Virus - Role of Bunyamwera virus glycoproteins in virus infectivity is examined

Cancer Drugs - Efficacy of doxorubicin improved via an enhanced intracellular delivery system

Cancer Therapy - Administration of propolis and its polyphenolic compounds delayed tumor formation and growth

Cancer Therapy - Continuous exposure to low-dose cisplatin induced apoptosis in rat hepatoma AH-109A cells

Cancer Therapy - Findings describe new data in cancer therapy research

Cancer Therapy - Mastoparan could be administered via a tumor selective delivery system

Cancer Therapy - Novel aminosubstituted xanthenones overcame multidrug resistance toward MES-SA/Dx5 cells

Cancer Therapy - PS-341 did not improve condition in patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Cancer Vaccine - Electrical charge promotes viability and physiology of dendritic cells

Cancer Vaccine - Epitope from cancer testis antigen was presented by dendritic cells to CD4+ T cells

Cancer Vaccine - Mechanism of DNA topoisomerase poisoning was investigated

Cervical Cancer Vaccine - High prevalence of HPV-16 found was in squamous intraepithelial lesions in Portuguese women

Cervical Cancer Vaccine - Vaccine against human papillomavirus in adolescents reaches market in 2006

Chemotherapy - Imatinib and hydroxyurea used to treat progressive glioblastoma multiforme

Chemotherapy - Weekly paclitaxel used to treat patients with advanced melanoma

Cholera Epidemiology - Children bear the brunt of cholera in the slums of Kolkata, India

Clinical Trials - Companies complete feasibility study for production of recombinant botulinum vaccine

Clinical Trials - Irish pharmaceutical company reports launch of reverse transcriptase phase III trials

Collaborations - German companies collaborate on monoclonal antibodies to human GPCR cancer targets

Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Diterpenoids from the Chinese herb Rabdosia rubescens affected NF-kappa B in breast cancer

Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Glycolipids fraction from spinach displayed anticancer activity

Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Pomegranate fruit juice proposed for chemoprevention and chemotherapy of prostate cancer

DNA Vaccine - Oligodeoxynucleotide enhances efficacy of DNA vaccine and treats autoimmune disease

Dendritic Cell Vaccine - Melanoma cell necrosis facilitates transfer of antigens onto dendritic cells

Dendritic Cell Vaccine - Natural killer dendritic cell cross-talk is effective for cancer immunotherapy

Dengue Virus - Humanized NOD/SCID mice were developed to study dengue virus and test antidengue products

Drug Delivery - Pros, cons of needle-free immunization, other delivery methods are reviewed

Drug Development - Agreement signed to develop process, manufacture AIDS vaccine candidate for trials

Drug Development - All volunteers in phase I trial for plague vaccine are successfully vaccinated

Drug Development - Pharma company to license novel drug target for HIV treatment

Drug Development - Preliminary results from ragweed allergy trial expected in early 2006

Drug Safety - Methods for clearing viruses and TSE agents from biologicals are under development

Finance - Dip in Manapol sales contributes to company's third-quarter net loss of $1.6M

Foot-&-Mouth Disease Vaccine - New mucosal vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease virus protects mice and swine

Gastroenterology - Lamina propria dendritic cells play large role in gastrointestinal physiology

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - Results demonstrate importance of reagent selection for monitoring of HIV responses

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Phase II trial initiated in South Africa to test HIV vaccine candidate

HIV/AIDS Research - Behavioral study shows patients willing to consider self-injectable therapy

HIV/AIDS Research - Clinical trial shows MK-0518 tablet has potent reduction in viral load as monotherapy