New malaria vaccine generates robust immune response DNA India --> | A new malaria vaccine candidate has been found to generate robust immune response while significantly delaying parasitemia in 59% of vaccinated subjects, according to a first-of-its-kind in-human study. Plasmodium vivax malaria is challenging t...
Immune cell 'switch' discovery can help fight cancer DNA India --> | "We can now make natural killer cells which fights cancer appear even when this switch is missing," said the researcher. | Researchers have discovered the mechanism which drives specialised immune cells that detect and kill cancer cells in the ...
Debate flares again over immunizations Denver Post An attempt to better track vaccination rates in Colorado is moving ahead in the legislature — but it's doubtful the effort will make it to the governor's desk. | The bill to centralize immunization data at the state Health Department, instead o...
How Living With Someone Makes Your Immune Systems Eerily Similar Huffington Post When you live with someone, it turns out that it can be way more intimate than just sharing space -- you can also end up having similar immune systems. | A new study, published in the journal Nature Immunology last week, suggests that the cellul...
Senate clears way for approval of new FDA commissioner WPXI The Senate has cleared the way for approval of President Barack Obama's nominee for commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. | Senators voted 80-6 Monday to end a Democrat...
Biotech entrepreneur Alfred E. Mann dies at 90 The Los Angeles Times Alfred E. Mann, a pioneering investor and philanthropist whose companies have developed breakthrough medical devices including the first rechargeable ... (photo: AP / Jordan Strauss/Invision for The Alfred Mann Foundation)
