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Immune Response to PRRSV Depends on Strain
2013-05-10 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
SPAIN - Researchers of CReSA have demonstrated that inoculation with different porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) strains result in different virological and immunological outcomes and in different degrees of homologous and heterologous protection.
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In Animal Model Of Hepatitis B Infection, New Drug Stimulates Immune System To Kill Infected Cells
2013-04-30 12:01:53| Biotech - Topix.net
A novel drug developed by Gilead Sciences and tested in an animal model at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio suppresses hepatitis B virus infection by stimulating the immune system and inducing loss of infected cells.
New drug stimulates immune system to kill infected cells in animal model of hepatitis B infection
2013-04-27 21:23:10| Biotech - Topix.net
In a study conducted at Texas Biomed's Southwest National Primate Research Center, researchers found that the immune modulator GS-9620, which targets a receptor on immune cells, reduced both the virus levels and the number of infected liver cells in chimpanzees chronically infected with hepatitis B virus .
Hospitals far from immune to patient-data theft
2013-01-03 20:59:37| InfoWorld: Top News
Health care professionals may preach the benefits of prevention to ward off sickness, but their employers don't appear to apply that advice to stopping patient-data theft: 94 percent of health care organizations in the United States have