Monthly Archives: October 2014

Human safety trials begin on second experimental Ebola vaccine

Posted: October 23, 2014 at 11:45 am

The National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that human testing has begun on a second experimental Ebola vaccine, VSV-ZEBOV.

The vaccine, which was developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada, uses a genetically altered version of vesicular stomatitis virus, which usually affects livestock and causes mild illness in humans.

In tests with monkeys, the vaccine was shown to produce Ebola virus antibodies. Researchers say this was accomplished by altering VSV so that it contained the same protein that Ebola uses to invade cells.

The vaccine is being tested at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, according to the NIH. One set of tests will involve a two-shot "prime-boost" strategy, while the other will test a single shot technique.

The vaccine has been licensed to Newlink Genetics Corporation of Ames, Iowa.

In September, phase one safety trials began on another vaccine candidate developed by the NIAID and the pharmaceutical company Glaxosmithkline.

The NIH said that initial safety and immune response results for the NIAID-GSK vaccine are expected by the end of this year.

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DNA: Why Sharad Pawar’s NCP is supporting the BJP? – Video

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DNA: Why Sharad Pawar #39;s NCP is supporting the BJP?
Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel on Sunday offered outside support to the BJP, which has emerged as the single largest party in a hung Maharashtra Assembly. "The NCP will...

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DNA: Raj Thackeray’s fall from grace – Video

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DNA: Raj Thackeray #39;s fall from grace
Once seen as a potential successor, then seen as the party that would destroy the Shiv Sena, Raj Thackeray and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena have effectively been relegated to the scrap heap...

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MyHeritage and 23andMe Join Forces to use DNA to track Family History – Video

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MyHeritage and 23andMe Join Forces to use DNA to track Family History
MyHeritage Founder and CEO, Gilad Japhet, on Bloomberg TV announcing MyHeritage #39;s collaboration with 23andMe and how MyHeritage technology, DNA analysis and historical records can help ...

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The DNA of our legal system | Anna Grear | TEDxBonn – Video

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The DNA of our legal system | Anna Grear | TEDxBonn
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In her inspiring talk, Anna Grear goes through the patterns of injustice and the legal system flaws...

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Decoding Ancient Bulgarian DNA – ASHG 2014 Poster – Video

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Decoding Ancient Bulgarian DNA - ASHG 2014 Poster
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Spot DNA – Video

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DNA Fuzller – ‘Outplayed’ #4 – Video

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DNA Fuzller - #39;Outplayed #39; #4
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Yahel – DNA (Indra Remix) – Video

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Yahel - DNA (Indra Remix)
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Clues to Stone Age mating

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By Jacque Wilson, CNN

updated 8:50 AM EDT, Thu October 23, 2014

This thigh bone was found six years ago on the banks of the Irtysh River in Siberia.

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(CNN) -- DNA from a 45,000-year-old leg bone is giving scientists a better idea of when modern humans first started mating with Neanderthals.

The thigh bone was found six years ago on the banks of the Irtysh River in Siberia by Nikolai Peristov, a Russian artist who carves jewelry from ancient mammoth tusks, according to the journal Nature.

"It was quite fossilized, and the hope was that it might turn out (to be) old. We hit the jackpot," Bence Viola, a paleoanthropologist who co-led a study of the remains, told Nature. "It was older than any other modern human yet dated."

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For those who aren't familiar with our Stone Age ancestors, Neanderthals are an extinct species of human who differ in DNA from what scientists call "modern humans" by less than 1%. Modern humans first left Africa about 60,000 years ago, according to National Geographic, and wandered toward Asia and Europe. There, they encountered Neanderthals and another species of human called Denisovans.

Scientists believe Neanderthals died out about 30,000 years ago, possibly because they were simply absorbed into the modern human population. Roughly 2% of genomes of non-Africans today come from the Neanderthal species, according to Nature.

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