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...researchers - the immune system is prompted to create antibodies to both the larger protein and the piggybacked drug. The next time the user takes cocaine by itself, the body mounts an automatic defense: Antibodies attach onto the cocaine molecules, which are then broken down by enzymes in the bloodstream. "It's just like a big sponge for cocaine in the bloodstream," Thomas Kosten says...
Merck is pulling 11 lots of PedvaxHIB and two lots of COMVAX. PedvaxHIB is a vaccine that protects against infection with haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), the bacteria that causes meningitis, pneumonia, and bloodstream infections. The COMVAX vaccine protects against haemophilius B and hepatitis B, a virus that can cause liver disease...
...started to feel sick. By the time he got to bed, his flu-like symptoms gave way to achy joints and feverish dreams. That's when he got suspicious that he had dengue fever, the mosquito-borne virus that, in its deadly form, causes blood to seep from the bloodstream into tissue and eventually from the body's orifices. Several days later, doctors diagnosed the expat aid worker with a milder, non-lethal variation of the disease. Since there are no drugs or vaccines for dengue, Tind Simmons did what some 38,500 infected Cambodians did this year: he drank...
Scientists have known for decades that stem cells sometimes migrate from the bone marrow into the bloodstream. But they have not yet understood the “meaning and consequences” of this phenomenon until now, von Andrian said...
That business is pliable, flexible sensors. (Think Silly Putty with a circuit.) DeepStream, in Bangor, Wales, has invented a way to fit sensors into any nook or cranny in order to do everything from reducing commercial energy consumption to monitoring sugar levels in the bloodstream...