Topic: Gary Nabel
Researchers have found that the H1N1 swine influenza virus that last year caused the first human pandemic in 4 decades shares an important surface protein with the virus responsible for the 1918 flu, the deadliest in human history. "We kind of did ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AIDS experts and advocates gathering in Vienna this weekend for a conference on the pandemic will hear about progress in protecting people from the deadly virus using drugs, and ways to affect behavior.No breakthrough news is expected on a ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have discovered antibodies that can protect against a wide range of AIDS viruses and said they may be able to use them to design a vaccine against the fatal and incurable virus.The bodies of some people make these ...
When the H1N1 virus swelled into a pandemic last year, it seemed to defy the rules: In research led by Ian Wilson, a structural immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, x-ray crystallography shows that the two viruses share ...
A VACCINE that masquerades as chikungunya virus might finally defeat the mosquito-borne disease. It could invade temperate regions as the mosquitoes' range expands. Gary Nabel of the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues put genes that code for ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An experimental vaccine works against the newly spreading Chikungunya virus, at least in monkeys, and the approach may also work against other exotic viruses, U.S. government researchers reported on Thursday.They used virus-like particles, which are mock versions of ...
Elizabeth Guenthner, a resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, might have thought twice about agreeing to go out with her internal medicine intern Gary Nabel, had she known their first date would turn out like a scene from Pulp Fiction. Most ...
Fears over the H1N1 virus circulating the globe have abated somewhat this week, as a growing number of mild cases suggest that the swine flu virus is not as deadly as initially feared. In 2006, for example, the U.S. Department of ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently began a clinical trial of a novel kind of bird-flu vaccine that can be designed and manufactured three times faster than traditional vaccines. "The current vaccines for avian flu don't work well," says Gary ...
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