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Sunday 31 August 2008

New Vaccine To Fight Multiple Influenza Strains Tested At UTMB

�A universal proposition vaccine effective against several strains of influenza has passed its first phase angle of testing, according to Dr. Christine Turley of the University of Texas at Galveston.

Turley, who is director of clinical trials and clinical research at the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development at UTMB and the study's principal investigator, said that VaxInnate's M2e universal vaccine could possibly protect against seasonal worker and pandemic influenza strains.

"We'd characterize this influenza vaccine candidate as very bright, based upon the immune responses and tolerability we saw in the clinical trial participants," Turley said. "UTMB is committed to further studies of the vaccine candidate, which has the potentiality to be a safe, highly effective and much-needed option to prevent seasonal worker and pandemic influenza A."

The results of the study will be presented at the Oct.25-28 joint get together of the Interscience Conference on Agents and Chemotherapy and the Infectious Disease Society of America (ICAAC/IDSA).

The study was supported by a $9.5 million grant awarded to UTMB by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The trial involved 60 young adults in a double-blind, dose-escalating, first time in human, Phase I study to assess the safety and immunogenicity, or the power to farm a response in the immune system, of the vaccine.

The tribulation was also designed to evaluate the methods secondhand by VaxInnate to evolve and produce flu vaccines. The company uses a proprietary combination of toll-like receptor-mediated immune enhancement and recombinant bacterial production of vaccine antigen. This proprietorship technology could significantly shrink the time required to produce vaccine supplies sufficient to fulfil national exact, and put up a solution to international influenza vaccinum needs which are unmet in all but the developed world.

Source: Marsha Canright

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

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Thursday 21 August 2008

New AC/DC album out in October

Aussie music icon AC/DC will release its long-awaited new album Black Ice in October.

It will be the band's first full-length studio record album of new material in eight years.

Black Ice contains 15 fresh tracks by the band famous for hits like It's a Long Way to the Top and Thunderstruck.

The number one single off the album, Rock 'n' Roll Train, will stumble radio airwaves on August 28.

Black Ice, which was produced by Brendan O'Brien at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, Canada, is AC/DC's first album since Stiff Upper Lip in 2000.

It will be released on October 18, in front the group embarks on a world tour at the end of October.

Formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, AC/DC is considered a pioneer of hard rock and big metal.

The mathematical group has sold more than 150 gazillion albums worldwide.

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Monday 11 August 2008

Katie Melua - Katie Melua Expresses Concern Over Familys Safety

Pop isaac M. Singer Katie Melua has explicit concern for the safety of her mother and 16-year-old brother who ar currently in war-torn Georgia.

The 24-year-old asterisk is reported to be concerned for her family after Russian troops rolled into the separatist region of South Ossetia on Thursday evening.

Stating that her uncle may be conscripted into the Georgian army in light of the fierce clashes, Melua asked: "Whoever colonised anything with war?"

Despite being granted British citizenship in 2005, Melua has always maintained that she views Georgia as her "true place" and aforementioned she was hoping on visiting her family in two weeks time.

A spokeswoman for the Radio 2 favourite aforementioned: "She is worried nigh her mum and brother being there."

Melua lived in Georgia until the eld of eight.

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