A Summary of ProSci’s Research on HIV – ProSci’s roots lie in the research of Human Immunodefficiency Virus and working to develop a neutralizing vaccine against it. Below is an “abstract of abstracts” summarizing the research performed over the last...
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July 2016: The Antibody Update – The Map of the Human Brain Grows More Detailed Researchers have compiled huge amounts of data to yield a new map of the human brain’s cerebral cortex with 180 different subunits. Of these areas,...
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First CRISPR/Cas9 Therapeutic Clinical Trials Starting The increasingly popular CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system has been approved for use in cancer therapy. CRISPR is a DNA sequence that codes for the Cas9 complex, which is able to cut incredibly specific portions...
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Unique Animal Antibodies Though the adaptive immune system functions similarly across most vertebrates, some species such as bovine, camelids, and sharks stand out from the others with unique antibodies that only occur in their own evolutionary path. These antibodies have...
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The USDA Fined Santa Cruz Biotechnology $3.5-million for Animal Wellness Violations The United States Government has fined Santa Cruz Biotechnology $3.5-million over violations of the animal welfare act, making for the largest fine in the USDA’s history. The USDA has...
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April 2016: The Antibody Update – Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Prevent HIV Infection Even Through Repeated Exposure A cocktail of anti-HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) was able to prevent infection of animals with simian HIV (SHIV) while the animals were continuously...
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Nobel Antibodies – Antibodies are characterized by versatility in form and in function: they are great communicators in the immune system, they can be used to visualize obscure targets, and can stabilize otherwise transient molecular states. In 2011, Brian K....
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Antibody Basics: Rabbit Monoclonal Antibodies – Antibody Basics: Rabbit Monoclonal Antibodies Monoclonal antibodies developed in mice have been applied in thousands of applications since their development by Caesar Millstein and Georges Kohler in 1975. Since then, entire businesses have been...
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A Possible Vaccine for Dengue Virus Vaccine research has shown that infecting volunteers with a weakened form of the dengue virus is able to boost the immune system enough to prevent future infections. This method of vaccination using weakened dengue...
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