Super Antibody Could Provide Permanent Flu Vaccine


	Super Antibody Could Provide Permanent Flu Vaccine

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2-24-2009 6:57 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a997e67d-c8ba-48e2-bf93-a3a6ebf105ea/114C76E8-C938-432F-A418-11C1539DBAB5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/23/researchers-find-super-antibody-that-could-provide-permanent-flu-vaccine/" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/23/researchers-find-super-antibody-that-could-provide-permanent-flu-vaccine/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/23/researchers-find-super-antibody-that-could-provide-permanent-flu-vaccine/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.discovermagazine.com/img/4022CB5E-DC89-49DF-8D6D-CA2F29662654" alt="flu foiling" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/23/researchers-find-super-antibody-that-could-provide-permanent-flu-vaccine/">Researchers have engineered antibodies that could potentially lead to a cure-all for multiple strains of <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/flu/">influenza</A>, including the dangerous H5N1 strain of bird flu, according to a study <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nsmb.1566.html">published in <EM>Nature Structural and Molecular Biology</EM></A>. Mice that were infected with bird flu and three days later were injected with the treatment exhibited no symptoms of illness. Whereas existing flu <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/vaccines/">vaccines</A> are able to target only one strain of virus at a time and need to be redeveloped every year, the new research suggests that a single treatment may work against many strains.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/23/researchers-find-super-antibody-that-could-provide-permanent-flu-vaccine/">Subsequent studies showed the virus could disarm multiple strains of flu</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/23/researchers-find-super-antibody-that-could-provide-permanent-flu-vaccine/"><FONT color="#1c39bb">the next step is to test the antibodies in ferrets, and then to develop an appropriate version for human clinical trials as soon as 2011 to 2012.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/23/researchers-find-super-antibody-that-could-provide-permanent-flu-vaccine/"> If the antibodies are tested to be safe and effective, it could take several years to develop a licensed product</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/114C76E8-C938-432F-A418-11C1539DBAB5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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