Infection Control Today - Immune Response

First Harvest of Plants Containing Botulinum A Antibodies Produces Good News for Food-Safety Testing

TORONTO -- Antibodies to Botulinum Toxin type A have just been harvested from a crop of tobacco plants in Ontario. Developed by the Department of Environmental Biology at the University of Guelph, and funded by Toxin Alert Inc., the Healthy Futures for Ontario Agriculture ...More

July 24, 2003

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MedMira Launches Rapid Vaccinia Antibody Detection Test

HALIFAX -- MedMira Inc. announces the launch of its patent-pending MiraWell Rapid Vaccinia Antibody Detection Test into the international marketplace. This test is the latest commercial development in the Company's increasing line of rapid in vitro diagnostic products. The ...More

June 12, 2003

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Viragen Files Patent Application for Drug to Target SARS

PLANTATION, Fla. -- Viragen, Inc. announces that it has filed a patent application covering the use of natural human leukocyte-derived alpha interferon for the treatment and prevention of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). "Previous reports have identified alpha ...More

May 20, 2003

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AVANIR Anthrax Antibody Effective at Neutralizing Key Anthrax Toxin in Live Animal Model

SAN DIEGO -- AVANIR Pharmaceuticals presented in vivo animal data on its fully human antibody against the key toxin of the Class A biowarfare agent anthrax at a national symposium in Maryland today. The data showed that one molecule of the antibody, AVP-8C1, is capable of ...More

May 1, 2003

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Focus Technologies Starts Shipping First Commercial Flavivirus Antibodies for 2003 Season

HERNDON, Va. - Setting a precedent in West Nile Virus testing, Focus Technologies has begun routinely supplying public health labs, commercial laboratories and large hospitals with laboratory reagents for detecting Flavivirus (West Nile Virus) antibodies. Focus' products ...More

April 29, 2003

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Potential SARS Treatment to be Developed by Medarex and Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories

PRINCETON, N.J. and JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. -- Medarex, Inc. and the Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories (MBL) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School today announced that they have entered into an agreement by which they intend to co-develop fully human antibodies ...More

April 25, 2003

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Sunol Molecular Corporation Launches Clinical Trial to Combat Complications from E. coli Infections

MIRAMAR, Fla. -- Sunol Molecular Corporation, in collaboration with the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) at the National Institutes of Health, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), announced the start of a Phase 1 ...More

April 8, 2003

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Researchers Report Novel Assay That Could Lead to HIV Vaccine Development

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. and RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Tranzyme, Inc., a drug discovery and development company, announced today that researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have developed a novel assay that may lead to an AIDS vaccine capable of ...More

March 21, 2003

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ViroLogic's Entry Assay May Accelerate HIV Vaccine Development According to Study

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO -- ViroLogic, Inc. today announced that results of a study published in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggest that its novel, proprietary PhenoSense HIV Entry assay could significantly accelerate the ...More

March 18, 2003

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First Commercial Flavivirus (West Nile Virus) ELISA Reagents Ready for 2003 Season

HERNDON, Va. -- Focus Technologies announces the April 2003 availability of laboratory reagents for detecting Flavivirus (West Nile Virus) antibodies using a recombinant protein antigen licensed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2002, West Nile ...More

March 10, 2003

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