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Adenoviruses

Plasma Treatment Zaps Viruses Before They Can Attack Cells

Adenoviruses can cause respiratory, eye, and intestinal tract infections, and, like other viruses, must hijack the cellular machinery of infected organisms in order to produce proteins and their own viral spawn. Now an international research team made up of scientists from ...More
December 16, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Plasma-Based Treatment Goes Viral

Life-threatening viruses such as HIV, SARS, hepatitis and influenza could soon be combatted in an unusual manner as researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of plasma for inactivating and preventing the replication of adenoviruses. When exposed to plasma – the fourth ...More
December 5, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Adenovirus Lends Itself to Novel Vaccine That Produces Immunity Against Cocaine High

Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Cornell University have produced a long-lasting anti-cocaine immunity in mice by giving them a unique vaccine that combines bits of the common cold virus with a particle that mimics cocaine. ...More
January 4, 2011
Posted in News
Chimerix's CMX001 Shows Potential for Transplant Patients With Adenovirus Infection

Chimerix, Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing orally-available antiviral therapeutics, presented promising clinical data for CMX001 in a late-breaker poster session at the 48th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Data from ...More
October 26, 2010
Posted in News
Childhood Viral Infection May Be a Cause of Obesity

The emerging idea that obesity may have an infectious origin gets new support in a cross-sectional study by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers who found that children exposed to a particular strain of adenovirus were significantly more likely ...More
September 20, 2010
Posted in News
Scientists Unveil Structure of Adenovirus

After more than a decade of research, Scripps Research Institute scientists have pieced together the structure of a human adenovirus—the largest complex ever determined at atomic resolution. The new findings about the virus, which causes respiratory, eye, and ...More
August 30, 2010
Posted in News
Using Adenovirus to Target and Disrupt Cancer Cells

A novel mechanism used by adenovirus to sidestep the cell's suicide program, could go a long way to explain how tumor suppressor genes are silenced in tumor cells and pave the way for a new type of targeted cancer therapy, report researchers at the Salk Institute for ...More
August 25, 2010
Posted in News
Repurposing the Smallpox Vaccine to Battle HIV

Researchers from The Wistar Institute recently reported that a human adenovirus called AdHu26, once thought uncommon, is not so rare after all. This could be bad news for scientists eager to use engineered AdHu26 human adenoviruses as vaccines against HIV and other ...More
August 23, 2010
Posted in News
"New" Human Adenovirus May Not Make for Good Vaccines, After All

In a new study of four adenovirus vectors, researchers from the Wistar Institute show that a reportedly rare human adenovirus, called AdHu26, is not so rare, after all, and would thus be unlikely to be optimal as a vaccine carrier for mass vaccination. ...More
August 11, 2010
Posted in News
New TB Booster Shows Promise

A booster shot appears to improve tuberculosis (TB) resistance in previously vaccinated adults, according to new research in South Africa. The study has been published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and ...More
March 17, 2010
Posted in News