�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. |
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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
Thursday 29 May 2008
Ashlee Simpson - Ashlee Weds As Blackbird Plays
Pop star ASHLEE SIMPSON walked down the aisle to the tune of the BEATLES' BLACKBIRD when she wed PETE WENTZ on Saturday (17May08).
The couple's first dance as man and wife was to a song written for them by Wentz's Fall Out Boy bandmates.
One wedding guest tells Life + Style magazine, "It was beautiful and so sincere."
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Monday 26 May 2008
Madonna’s tracksuits embarrass daughter
Madonna has revealed that she likes to “muck around” the house in a comfortable tracksuit — much to the dismay of her 11-year-old daughter Lourdes.
The ‘Material Girl’ singer — who celebrates her 50th birthday later this year — said: “I’m happy to muck around in a pair of a drawstring pants and wellies but my daughter gets angry because I go to school wearing my tracksuit. She says, ‘Can’t you just wear normal clothes?’
“I think she wants me to be a yummy mummy but that’s not me. Guy will sometimes laugh at what I wear, too.”
The ‘Material Girl’ singer — who celebrates her 50th birthday later this year — said: “I’m happy to muck around in a pair of a drawstring pants and wellies but my daughter gets angry because I go to school wearing my tracksuit. She says, ‘Can’t you just wear normal clothes?’
“I think she wants me to be a yummy mummy but that’s not me. Guy will sometimes laugh at what I wear, too.”
Gisele Bundchen - Bundchen Shoe Collecting Is The Same As Car Obsessions
Brazilian supermodel GISELE BUNDCHEN hates men who criticise women's extensive shoe collections - because the hobby is just the same as men's obsessions with cars.
The star - who has her own range of sandals, the proceeds from which fund water projects in the Amazon - insists her 100 pairs of shoes is far fewer than many of her fellow females' footwear collections.
She says, "I must have more than 100 pairs. I don't even think that's excessive for a woman. You could compare it to what guys are like about cars.
"Shoes to women are just as exciting and important."
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War, Inc.
The time is the near-future and the desert country of Turaquistan has been recently �acquired� by the American corporation now run by a former U.S. Vice-President (Dan Aykroyd). In order to monopolize the country�s assets, a hitman named Hauser (John Cusack), who enjoys drinking straight shots of hot sauce, is hired to derail a Middle Eastern oil minister named Omar Sharif (!), who has plans to run a pipeline through the country that would create huge problems for the new �owners.� In order to pull this off, Hauser poses as a PR man who arranges the high profile wedding of Central Asian pop-star Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff). The plot thickens when Hauser is given an assistant (Joan Cusack), who knows where all the bodies are buried, as well as the arrival of a hot, liberal-leaning investigative reporter Natalie Hegalhuzen (Marisa Tomei) on the trail of all the turmoil. In addition to the complications caused by all these new relationships, Hauser�s CIA past starts haunting him making his attempts to assassinate the oil magnate all that more daunting. Got it?As co-writer and co-producer, Cusack clearly has a lot invested in War, Inc., a labor of love that uses hard-edged, sometimes inaccessible satire to make his points about the sad state of American foreign policy. Casting himself as the hitman, he is comfortably once again in Grosse Pointe Blank territory, playing a killer-for-hire for laughs. Cusack�s comedies vary widely, but this one is much closer in spirit to Grosse Pointe than conventional stuff like America's Sweethearts and Must Love Dogs. You feel he must have done those latter comedies for a paycheck in order to finance a few more War, Incs. Here he has surrounded himself with a first-rate group of actors who seem comfortable falling flat on their face in order to mine for laughs. Dan Aykroyd (ironically, Cusack's co-star in Grosse Pointe Blank) has just the right acerbic tone as a Dick Cheney-like former V.P. still out to peddle American influence around the world. Marisa Tomei is sexy and funny in a smallish role as the reporter, while Hilary Duff is clearly stretching and almost unrecognizable as the international pop star. Ben Kingsley as John Cusack�s old boss is well cast, and it�s great to see sister Joan Cusack working with her brother on a passion project like this.Without question this type of satirical picture is the hardest thing to do. It�s the kind of thing Billy Wilder with One, Two, Three or Stanley Kubrick with Dr. Strangelove could pull off seemingly effortlessly. War, Inc is nowhere close to that league but as almost a lost form of cinema you have to admire director Joshua Seftel�s efforts here to make it work. He does more often than not, particularly in some of the more dialogue-heavy scenes in which the actors get to damn inhibition and let loose. On the down side is the deliberate bleak color palette, which comes off too dark and dreary at times and seems to work against the comedy. At its heart , War, Inc. aims to provoke while it entertains and not every kind of audience is going to be receptive, but for those who like their movies shaken and stirred with a touch of irony, it�s worth a look.
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Gift of Love- Deepak And Frie
Artist: Gift of Love- Deepak And Frie
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Gift of Love- Deepak And Frie
Year:
Tracks: 20
Phil Collins may team up with Akon, Pharrell Williams
Washington (ANI): Legendary singer Phil Collins is pondering joining hands with hip-hop stars Akon and Pharrell Williams so as to give his music a modern twist. He revealed that he was a bit surprised as well as flattered when he first heard that both Akon and Williams were fans of his music, and wanted to work with him. "I'm flattered that they've expressed the interest publicly, risking their careers in doing so," Contactmusic quoted him as telling Rolling Stone magazine."Anything is possible and I certainly would investigate doing that if I did think about doing something," he added. This is not the first time that R&B stars have evinced interest in Collins' music, for Brandy, L'il Kim and Kelis sang updated versions of Collin's hits on 2001's Urban Renewal LP
Electric Frankenstein
Artist: Electric Frankenstein
Genre(s):
Rock
Pop: Pop-Rock
Metal
Other
Discography:
Dead And Back
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Listen Up, Baby!
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Action High
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
The Buzz of a 1000 Volts
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Annie's Grave
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
The Dawn of Electric Frankenstein
Year: 2000
Tracks: 17
Rock 'N' Roll Monster
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
What Me Worry
Year: 1975
Tracks: 9
How tomake a monster
Year:
Tracks: 13
The punk revival meeting quintet Electric Frankenstein comprised isaac Bashevis Singer Steve Miller, guitarists Jim Foster and Sal Canzonieri, bassist Donato Canzonieri and drummer Rob Sefcik. Formed in New York during the mid-1990s, the mathematical group first garnered care with a series of singles on indie labels including Demolition Derby, Frisbee, Get Hip and Estrus, as well making any number of compilation appearances; their commencement full-length, Galvanizing Frankenstein Conquers the World, followed in 1996. A year later, Electric Frankenstein returned with Tired of Songs and The Time Is Now; Listen Up Baby and Spare Parts appeared in 1998, and the group's prolific turnout continued in 1999 with How to Make a Monster. Dayspring of Electric Frankenstein, an album featuring a compendium of bands that influenced Electric Frankenstein followed a year later; another studio exploit Annie's Grave and Bear on Me I'm Electric both appeared in early 2001.
Minogue: 'Motherhood may not be for me'
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