�Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research have been awarded $3.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to conduct animal studies of vaccines designed to protect against the most common and deadliest strain of avian flu, H5N1. Recent outbreaks of H5N1 have prompted health officials to monish of its continued threat to global health and potential to trigger an avian influenza pandemic.
"Worldwide avian flu control efforts have been mostly successful, but like seasonal influenza, avian influenza changes year to year, creating fresh subtypes and strains that could easily and quickly spread among humans," aforementioned Ted M. Ross, Ph.D., principle investigator of the grant and assistant professor, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh.
Unlike other avian flu vaccines, which ar partially highly-developed from live viruses, the vaccines Dr. Ross and colleagues testament test in non-human order Primates are based on a virus-like molecule, or VLP, that is recognized by the resistant system as a genuine virus just lacks transmissible information to reproduce, fashioning it a potentially safer alternative for a human vaccine. Given the evolving nature of H5N1, the vaccines make been engineered to encode genes for many influenza viral proteins to volunteer enhanced security against possible new strains of the virus.
"VLPs may be advantageous all over other vaccinum strategies because they are easy to develop, produce and fabricate," said Dr. Ross. "Using recombinant technologies, within ten-spot weeks, we could return a vaccinum most effective towards the current circulating strain of virus, devising it a cost-effective countermeasure to the threat of an avian influenza pandemic."
Co-investigators at the University of Pittsburgh include Simon M. Barratt-Boyes, Ph.D., Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology; Gerard J. Nau, M.D., Ph.D. and Jodi K. Craigo, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; Elodie Ghedin, Ph.D., Department of Medicine; and Clayton A. Wiley, M.D., Department of Pathology.
The Center for Vaccine Research (CVR) at the University of Pittsburgh houses both the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory and the Vaccine Research Laboratory. Researchers at the CVR, directed by Donald S. Burke, M.D., dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and UPMC Jonas Salk Professor of Global Health, develop new methods and strategies to prevent and treat infectious diseases, potentially improving and protecting worldwide health.
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Monday, 25 August 2008
Mp3 music: Nate Dogg
 Artist: Nate Dogg: mp3 download Genre(s): funk Nate Dogg's discography:  Music and Me Year: 2001 Tracks: 14 He's known as the psyche adult male of G-funk, and ahead his number unitary record album had ever been released, Nate Dogg made appearances on several immense hits: "Shape" with Warren G, 2Pac's All Eyez on Me, and the soundtrack to Remove Was the Case. The first full cousin of Snoop Dogg, Nate was instinctive in Los Angeles and began on the job with Warren early in the '90s. By 1994, the duo hit figure 2 on the bolt down charts with "Regulate," from the soundtrack to Supra the Rim. The two later on cut turned their kinship, with Warren release on to multi-platinum success. Nate scored at one time again in 1996 with "Ne'er Leave Me Alone," featuring Snoop, and released his debut record album, G-Funk Classics, Vols. 1 & 2, early the following year on Interscope. |
August
Thursday, 7 August 2008
NASA Space Sound Recordings
Artist: NASA Space Sound Recordings
Genre(s):
Electronic
Ambient
Easy Listening
Discography:
Symphonies Of The Planets 5
Year: 1992
Tracks: 1
Symphonies Of The Planets 4
Year: 1992
Tracks: 1
Symphonies Of The Planets 3
Year: 1992
Tracks: 1
Symphonies Of The Planets 2
Year: 1992
Tracks: 1
Symphonies Of The Planets 1
Year: 1992
Tracks: 1
Symphonies Of The Planets
Year: 1992
Tracks: 2
Nasa - Voyager Recordings 2 - Space Sounds Voice Of Earth
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Nasa - Voyager Recordings 2 - Space Sounds Uranus
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Nasa - Voyager Recordings 2 - Space Sounds Sphere Of Io
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Nasa - Voyager Recordings 2 - Space Sounds Saturn's Rings
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Nasa - Voyager Recordings 2 - Space Sounds Saturn
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Nasa - Voyager Recordings 2 - Space Sounds Neptune
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Nasa - Voyager Recordings 2 - Space Sounds Jupiter
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Nasa - Voyager Recordings 2 - Space Sounds Miranda
Year: 1990
Tracks: 1
Rings Of Uranus
Year: 1986
Tracks: 1
Neuropharma Reports Last Results On Its Research In Alzheimer's Disease
Friday, 27 June 2008
Ivan Sokolovsky
Artist: Ivan Sokolovsky
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Khan's afternoon rest
Year: 1996
Tracks: 5
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Rep denies Connery in hospital
A representative for former James Bond star Sir Sean Connery has denied the actor is in hospital nursing a fractured ankle � revealing the star is only suffering from a minor shoulder injury.
The 77-year-old reportedly fell and injured himself during a game of golf in Mount Kisco, New York on Friday and was subsequently admitted to Northern Westchester Hospital for treatment.
But Connery�s spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer says the accident was not as serious as it was made out to be.
She said: �I�m afraid (previous reports are) not correct. Sean Connery has chipped a bone in his shoulder and is in a sling. He tripped while playing golf and is visiting family in New York. He isn�t in hospital.�
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Saturday, 14 June 2008
Psydrop
Artist: Psydrop
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
The Miracle Man
Year: 2002
Tracks: 8
Paul McCartney to Host 'Virtual Dinner Party' For Charity
Sunday, 8 June 2008
recluse
Artist: recluse
Genre(s):
Trance
Discography:
Recluse
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Sean Bean marries for fourth time
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