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• SUNY Buffalo’s Medical and Sciences departments produced a number of inventions

  
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  By the end of 2012 professor-researchers  from SUNY Buffalo’s Medical and Sciences departments produced a number of inventions that could have life changing effects for people from around the world.   These breakthroughs involved: 1.  “Self-Seeding” blood vessels. 2.  Superbug Destroyer 3.  ...
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• Mast cells give clues in diagnosis, treatment of dengue

  
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  A protein produced by mast cells in the immune system may predict which people infected with dengue virus will develop life-threatening complications, according to researchers at Duke Medicine and Duke-National University of Singapore (Duke-NUS). Their study also found that in experiments in mice, a class of drugs ...
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• Competing antibodies may have limited the protection achieved in HIV vaccine trial in Thailand

  
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  Continuing analysis of an HIV vaccine trial undertaken in Thailand is yielding additional information about how immune responses were triggered and why the vaccine did not protect more people. In a study appearing May 6, 2013, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of ...
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• CSIR UGC NET JRF Life Sciences Biology Practice Test on Immunology

  
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  This practice test is designed to assess your  knowledge in ‘immunology ’. Choose the best answer from the four options given. When youve finished answering as many of the questions as you can,... Visit "Biology Exams 4 U " http://www.biologyexams4u.com/
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• Researchers find a way to deliver anti-HIV drugs directly to the brain

  
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  A team of researchers at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine has found a way to deliver anti-AIDS medicine directly to the brain using nanoparticles. According to the Miami Herald, two scientists, a physicist and a professor of  immunology and engineering... … Read More
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• Bird Flu: H7N9 Infection Risk Mapped

  
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  A map of avian influenza (H7N9) risk is now available. The map is comprised of bird migration patterns, and adding in estimations of poultry production and consumption, which are used to infer future risk and to advise on ways to prevent infection. As of today, there have been 127 confirmed cases of H7N9 in mainland ...
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• AIDS vaccine fails

  
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  Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding (in green) from cultured lymphocyte The past two weeks brought plenty of interesting science news, including the failure of a potential AIDS vaccine. From Popular Science : The study, called HVTN-505, was begun in 2009, over the years enrolling over 2,500 ...
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• Irish Immunology Specialists, Opsona Therapeautics, Receive 33m Investment.

  
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  A Trinity College Dublin spin-out, Opsona Therapeutics , has received a 33m fund to aid the developemnt of one of its drugs. The drug, OPN-305, which protects the body from rejection of donor kidneys is set to undergo a Phase II clinical trial in the following months where its tolerability, efficacy and safety will ...
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• Measles: new efforts needed to stop an old disease

  
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  New diseases grab headlines. The latest influenza scare – H7N9– has prompted much speculation about the direction the virus might take. And rightly so, as vaccines to fight new viruses can take some time to be produced. But there is an old virus that deserves our attention, too: measles, which causes a ...
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• GASLINI DI GENOVA: GIORNATA MONDIALE DELL’ IMMUNOLOGIA

  
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  Il 29 di Aprile si celebra la Giornata Mondiale dell’Immunologia, “TheDayof Immunology” (www.dayofimmunology.org), una iniziativa lanciata nel2005dalla European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS)(www.efis.org)per diffondere e rafforzare nell’opinione pubblica la consapevolezzadell’importanza ...
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• Flu shots boosted by exercise

  
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  While having a flu vaccine is considered a great way to lessen your odds of catching the disease, they don’t work for everyone but Dr Kate Edwards from the Faculty of Health Science’s Exercise and Sport Science unit believes exercise is the key to successful vaccination. Being physically activity has been ...
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• Flowcytometry Solutions

  
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  Flowcytometry Solutions  (FlowSols – www.flowsols.com) aims atproviding complete solution to the researchers and clinicians on flowcytometry. Having started off as an organization to provide the requiredsupport in the field of flow cytometry in India and neighboring countries, itsmission is to provide a complete ...
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• Scaling back polio eradication would be devastating, 480 experts say

  
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  In the journal Vaccine, they issue a declaration urging governments and scientists to continue fight again crippling disease
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• Natural Standard Attending Eastern States Residency Conference

  
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  Natural Standard is attending the upcoming 32nd Annual Eastern States Conference for Pharmacy Residents and Preceptors May 13-15, 2013 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Current Natural Standard Residents, Marina Shkayeva, PharmD and Carla Eisenstein, PharmD, will be presenting a poster presentation ...
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• New Immune Cell Linked To Eczema, Allergies

  
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  Researchers have discovered a new type of immune cell in our skin that could be linked to eczema and other allergies.
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• Teens need better understanding of vaccines as next generation of parents, study finds

  
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  Subjects described immunizable diseases as from “the past,” “the war” and “Victorian times”
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• Scientists find ethnicity linked to antibodies

  
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  Cracking the DNA code for a complex region of the human genome has helped 14 North American scientists, including five at Simon Fraser University, chart new territory in immunity research.They have discovered that a good number of our antibody genes, how well they operate and, potentially, what they fight off, ...
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• The asthma-COPD overlap syndrome

  
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  ACOS, reviewed here. From the review:ACOS accounts for approximately 15–25% of the obstructive airway diseases and patients experience worse outcomes compared with asthma or COPD alone. Patients with ACOS have the combined risk factors of smoking and atopy, are generally younger than patients with COPD and ...
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• Better vaccine supply systems could save 22 million children, scientists say

  
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  Better supply and logistics systems, international cooperation and funding are essential to reach the estimated 22 million children in developing countries who are still not protected from dangerous diseases with basic vaccines, according to a special supplement of Vaccine, published today. Articles also underline the ...
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• Florida State licenses new technology to test for mad cow disease

  
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  A new screening method to detect mad cow disease-causing elements in processed food will be developed through a new license agreement between Florida State University and Gainesville-based ELISA Technologies. Invented by Peggy Hsieh, a food scientist and the Betty M. Watts professor in FSU’s Department of Nutrition, ...
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