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Vaccine
Vaccine: a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters.
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MAY 24, 2017Microbiology
Malaria is caused by the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The parasite enters red blood cells, eventually causi ...Written By: Kerry EvansMAY 24, 2017Chemistry & Physics
A slingshot is often associated with the children’s toy and mischievous behaviors. But now it might just become a ...Written By: Daniel DuanMAY 22, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
New lung organoids open up new research possibilities for the study of human disease.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 20, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
In January 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the end to the largest Ebola outbreak in histor ...MAY 11, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
The state of Minnesota is working overtime to treat and contain a measles outbreak that health experts are attributing t ...MAY 09, 2017Immunology
What was initially regarded as a botched experiment in a lab from the Medical University of South Carolina became ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 03, 2017Microbiology
If you’re not familiar with Yersinia pestis, that’s okay. However, I’m sure you’re familiar with ...Written By: Kerry EvansAPR 28, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
Every year, millions of doses of life-saving vaccines are destroyed due to temperature breaches en route or while in sto ...APR 26, 2017Health & Medicine
The ability of one microbe to adapt is giving it a whole new career as a sexually transmitted disease. Usually content w ...Written By: Invisiverse PuccioAPR 20, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
Even though this year’s peak flu season can be considered to have passed, people can contract the virus well into ...APR 19, 2017Microbiology
Secretory IgA molecules are the antibodies that help protect our intestines from pathogens. Researchers from ETH Zurich ...Written By: Kerry EvansAPR 18, 2017Immunology
A rare and lethal brain tumor more often than not leads to death not much longer than one year after diagnosis, even wit ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 12, 2017Microbiology
I just got a postcard in the mail from my veterinarian. They say it’s time for my dog to get her rabies vaccinatio ...Written By: Kerry EvansAPR 10, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
TSRI and City of Hope Team Up in Effort to Cure AIDS LA JOLLA, CA – April 10, 2017 – Scientists at The Scrip ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)APR 09, 2017Immunology
Zika, dengue, and West Nile viruses are all related - literally. They are all part of the flavivirus family, and similar ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 08, 2017Videos
A newly found protein may aid vaccinations; it could make them more effective and could expand their use for other disea ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 04, 2017Neuroscience
While the Zika virus has not been in the headlines as much recently as when it was first discovered, there is still acti ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 28, 2017Immunology
Two drugs have synergistic potential to control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Administered immediately following i ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAR 28, 2017Immunology
LA JOLLA, CA – March 28, 2017 – HIV is a master of disguise. The virus uses a shield of sugar molecules, cal ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)MAR 28, 2017Immunology
Researchers have identified a human antibody that prevents Zika from infecting the fetus and damaging the placenta in pr ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)MAR 26, 2017Microbiology
Dengue virus is easily transmitted by mosquitos, but when scientists tracked its spread, they found that most people wer ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 24, 2017Immunology
Antigens produced by the testes that scientists thought were forever withdrawn from the rest of the body actually have c ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAR 22, 2017Videos
Smallpox once claimed nearly 400,000 lives every year during the 18th century. It continued to plague us well into the 2 ...MAR 17, 2017Cancer
A new clinical practice guideline has been issued by The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for human pap ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
MAY 24, 2017
Microbiology
Malaria is caused by the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum. The parasite enters red blood cells, eventually causi
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
MAY 24, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
A slingshot is often associated with the children’s toy and mischievous behaviors. But now it might just become a
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAY 22, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
New lung organoids open up new research possibilities for the study of human disease.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 20, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
In January 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the end to the largest Ebola outbreak in histor
...
MAY 11, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
The state of Minnesota is working overtime to treat and contain a measles outbreak that health experts are attributing t
...
MAY 09, 2017
Immunology
What was initially regarded as a botched experiment in a lab from the Medical University of South Carolina became
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 03, 2017
Microbiology
If you’re not familiar with Yersinia pestis, that’s okay. However, I’m sure you’re familiar with
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
APR 28, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Every year, millions of doses of life-saving vaccines are destroyed due to temperature breaches en route or while in sto
...
APR 26, 2017
Health & Medicine
The ability of one microbe to adapt is giving it a whole new career as a sexually transmitted disease. Usually content w
...
Written By:
Invisiverse Puccio
APR 20, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Even though this year’s peak flu season can be considered to have passed, people can contract the virus well into
...
APR 19, 2017
Microbiology
Secretory IgA molecules are the antibodies that help protect our intestines from pathogens. Researchers from ETH Zurich
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
APR 18, 2017
Immunology
A rare and lethal brain tumor more often than not leads to death not much longer than one year after diagnosis, even wit
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 12, 2017
Microbiology
I just got a postcard in the mail from my veterinarian. They say it’s time for my dog to get her rabies vaccinatio
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
APR 10, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
TSRI and City of Hope Team Up in Effort to Cure AIDS LA JOLLA, CA – April 10, 2017 – Scientists at The Scrip
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
APR 09, 2017
Immunology
Zika, dengue, and West Nile viruses are all related - literally. They are all part of the flavivirus family, and similar
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 08, 2017
Videos
A newly found protein may aid vaccinations; it could make them more effective and could expand their use for other disea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 04, 2017
Neuroscience
While the Zika virus has not been in the headlines as much recently as when it was first discovered, there is still acti
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 28, 2017
Immunology
Two drugs have synergistic potential to control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Administered immediately following i
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 28, 2017
Immunology
LA JOLLA, CA – March 28, 2017 – HIV is a master of disguise. The virus uses a shield of sugar molecules, cal
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
MAR 28, 2017
Immunology
Researchers have identified a human antibody that prevents Zika from infecting the fetus and damaging the placenta in pr
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 26, 2017
Microbiology
Dengue virus is easily transmitted by mosquitos, but when scientists tracked its spread, they found that most people wer
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 24, 2017
Immunology
Antigens produced by the testes that scientists thought were forever withdrawn from the rest of the body actually have c
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 22, 2017
Videos
Smallpox once claimed nearly 400,000 lives every year during the 18th century. It continued to plague us well into the 2
...
MAR 17, 2017
Cancer
A new clinical practice guideline has been issued by The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for human pap
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch