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Gearing up for Neuroscience 2015
With less than a month to go we're gearing up for the biggest Neuroscience event of the year - the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience! Neuroscience 2015 will run from Sunday October 18th to Wedensday October 21st at McCormick Place, Chicago. Elisabeth and Lakshmi from our techn...
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New Approach for Dengue Vaccine
A study published by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania suggests an entirely new approach to vaccines - creating immunity without vaccination. The concept outlined in a study published in Scientific Reports shows that an animal injected with a synt...
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Ebola Vaccine Is Here
A vaccine developed by Merck & Co. and NewLink Genetics Corp. and dubbed VSV-ZEBOV appears to have a 100% vaccination success rate against the deadly Ebola virus. This marks a monumental breakthrough in vaccination technology and will hopefully eradicate the current West Africa epidemic. ...
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Malaria Breakthrough!
A new breakthrough study co-authored by Prof. David Baker from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Prof. Andrew Tobin from the MRC Toxicology Unit has shed light on how malaria parasites survive in the bloodstream. They have identified a key protein, called a protein kinase, th...
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New Leads on a Psoriasis Treatment
Several scientists at Case Western Reserve have confirmed increased presence of the Serpinb3b, KLK6, Stefin A1 and Slc25a5 proteins in human lesional psoriasis skin tissue, and human lesional psoriasis skin cells compared to healthy control skin tissue and skin cells. This is instrumental in iden...