Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 4, 2024

Giant viruses found on the Greenland ice sheet probably regulate the growth of snow algae on the ice by infecting them. Knowing how to control these viruses could help us reduce the rate of ice-melt.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 12, 2024

Nipah virus is mostly found in South-East Asia that can be fatal in up to 75% of cases. This trial is a step forward in efforts to build a suite of tools to protect against this killer virus. The post In-human trial begins for first potential Nipah virus vaccine appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Ideally, new antivirals won’t be specific to one virus or protein, so they will be ready to treat new viruses that emerge without delay and will be able to overcome the development of resistance. “We Moreover, chikungunya virus containing higher levels of phosphatidylserine in its membrane was more susceptible to the peptoids.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Researchers have found a virus that kills dormant bacteria, a discovery that could help to combat infections that can’t be treated with antibiotics. When tested in cell culture dishes, the virus was able to kill 99% of all dormant bacteria but left 1% alive. They have named their new phage Paride.

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MAY 15, 2024

WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 -- The H5N1 avian flu virus has been discovered in a small number of wild birds in New York City.The highly infectious and severe virus was detected in fecal samples in six New York City birds representing four different.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 14, 2024

However, small, detectable amounts of infectious virus remained in raw milk samples with high virus levels when treated at 72 degrees Celsius (161.6 The amount of infectious H5N1 influenza viruses in raw milk rapidly declined with heat treatment in laboratory research.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 6, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Pfizer’s bivalent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prefusion F (RSVpreF) vaccine Abrysvo in individuals 60 years and older. The post FDA approves first vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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JULY 10, 2024

TUESDAY, July 10, 2024 -- An experimental “air mask” could help ward off infectious diseases while people are on the job, researchers report.The mask uses an air curtain blowing down from the brim of a hard hat to prevent airborne viruses from rea.

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Drug Discovery World

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A new genetically engineered herpes virus has delivered a one-two punch against advanced cancers in initial findings from a Phase I trial. Researchers have found that RP2 – a modified version of the herpes simplex virus – showed signs of effectiveness in a quarter of patients with a range of advanced cancers.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 13, 2024

An experimental treatment made from a plant virus is effective at protecting against a broad range of metastatic cancers in mice, shows a new study.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Scientists have unlocked key insights into virus evolution, revealing new information that could help develop treatments for a wide variety of genetic diseases. . It was led by scientists at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) and University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. .

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JULY 22, 2024

MONDAY, July 22, 2024 -- Children exposed to Zika virus in the womb might suffer long-term damage to their immune system, a new study warns.Zika virus is known to cause microcephaly, brain disabilities and other birth defects in about 5% of.

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MAY 6, 2024

MONDAY, May 6, 2024 -- Scientists are busy working on a vaccine that might fight strains of the COVID virus SARS-CoV-2 that haven't even emerged yet.The effort from a British team at the University of Cambridge is already showing promise in mouse.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Antimicrobial resistance is an urgent and growing global crisis. Researchers are exploring phages, viruses that infect bacteria, as a possible solution. In the new study, researchers successfully modified DNA from four types of phages to kill a deadly pathogen. The process can also be used to produce more phage variants for further exploration.

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Drug Discovery World

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Potential new drug candidates have been identified by a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) artificial intelligence programme, as health officials warn of a “tripledemic” of SARS-CoV-2, influenza and RSV. . The post AI identifies drug candidates for respiratory syncytial virus appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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MARCH 21, 2023

We believe we have developed the first technology to design an organism that can’t be infected by any known virus,” said the study’s first author, Akos Nyerges, research fellow in genetics in the lab of George Church in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. “We

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 17, 2023

The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has become the first UK health authority to permit routine NHS use of Gilead Sciences’ Hepcludex (bulevirtide) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection. HDV infection is rare, but the effects of chronic HDV infection are potentially extremely serious.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

MARCH 1, 2024

WHAT: Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have identified antibodies targeting a hard-to-spot region of the influenza virus, shedding light on the relatively unexplored “dark side” of the neuraminidase (NA) protein head.

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MAY 24, 2024

FRIDAY, May 24, 2024 -- Confirming the dangers of drinking raw cow's milk when the H5N1 avian flu virus is circulating in U.S. Our data indicate that HPAI A[H5N1] virus in. dairy herds, researchers found that mice fed the milk quickly got ill.

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MARCH 11, 2024

MONDAY, March 11, 2024 -- The COVID-19 virus can linger in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after they’ve shaken their initial infection, new findings show.Researchers found pieces of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID,

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APRIL 24, 2024

WEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 -- Bits of inactive bird flu virus have been discovered in samples of pasteurized milk from across the United States, health officials said Tuesday, although they stressed the viral fragments don't threaten humans.However,

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Dengue is the fastest spreading mosquito-borne virus and was recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019 as one of the top ten threats to global health. An estimated 3.9 The post UK approval for dengue virus vaccine candidate appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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APRIL 29, 2024

MONDAY, April 29, 2024 -- Climate change -- and closed windows -- could be aiding the spread of airborne viruses like the one that causes COVID-19, a new study suggests.Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and in indoor spaces appear.

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JUNE 28, 2024

FRIDAY, June 28, 2024 -- The spread of H5N1 avian flu to dairy cows has health experts and many Americans on edge, and now a new study finds the virus stays viable on milking equipment for at least an hour.“Dairy Dairy cows have to be milked even if they.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 5, 2023

Join DDW for this exclusive free event , A Comprehensive Guide to Using Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors in Gene Therapy, which is supported by Azenta Life Sciences. AAV is optimal for gene therapy due to its efficiency and safety in humans; however, AAV processes can present obstacles for researchers.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Join DDW for this exclusive free event , A Comprehensive Guide to Using Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors in Gene Therapy, which is supported by Azenta Life Sciences. AAV is optimal for gene therapy due to its efficiency and safety in humans; however, AAV processes can present obstacles for researchers.

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JUNE 22, 2023

Join DDW for this exclusive free event , A Comprehensive Guide to Using Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vectors in Gene Therapy, which is supported by Azenta Life Sciences. AAV is optimal for gene therapy due to its efficiency and safety in humans; however, AAV processes can present obstacles for researchers.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JANUARY 29, 2024

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the main reasons leading to hospitalisation among young children worldwide and each year, an estimated 101,000 children below the age of 5 years die due to RSV infections [1]. Since the end of 2022, the use of a long-acting monoclonal antibody (nirsevimab) in infants as means of passive […]

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APRIL 29, 2024

MONDAY, April 29, 2024 -- Live bird flu virus has not been found in any of the first batch of retail milk samples tested, federal health officials said Friday.Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in U.S. dairy cows, the early findings should.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

11, 2023 -- You've probably heard of West Nile virus, but mosquitoes spread various other illnesses, too, including the little-known Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV), which is garnering attention across the United States. MONDAY, Sept. For example,

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APRIL 26, 2024

FRIDAY, April 26, 2024 -- Bits of bird flu virus have been discovered in roughly 20% of retail milk samples tested in a national survey, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.The finding suggests that bird flu has spread far more.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JUNE 21, 2023

Researchers have shed light on how a highly infectious virus, that has recently transferred from animals to people, is able to enter human cells. Credit: Catalin Researchers have shed light on how a highly infectious virus, that has recently transferred from animals to people, is able to enter human cells.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JANUARY 3, 2024

An atomic-level investigation of how Eastern equine encephalitis virus binds to a key receptor and gets inside of cells also has enabled the discovery of a decoy molecule that protects against the potentially deadly brain infection, in mice.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Researchers have now described one piece of that puzzle, showing that the destruction of tropical rainforests harms the diversity of mosquito species. At the same time, more resilient species of mosquitoes become more prevalent -- which also means the viruses they carry are more abundant.

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JUNE 22, 2023

Viruses have become a regular part of basic biological research as well as clinical therapy. These biological tools are useful because they ’ re derived from viruses that can infect people, cells, and animals. Some of these viruses are completely inert, but others can cause diseases. Nervous about handling viruses? That ’ s okay!

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Named the Cache Valley virus after the Utah area in which it was first found in 1956, it has. THURSDAY, Oct. 19, 2023 -- A potentially deadly infection carried by mosquitoes may be more prevalent than once thought, U.S. health officials report.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

MONDAY, Oct. 30, 2023 -- A cheap, do-it-yourself air purifier is powerful enough to effectively protect a home from free-floating flu and COVID-19 viruses, according to test results from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The filter, crafted.

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