Zika Virus Vaccine Shows Promising Results in Preclinical Studies
A Zika virus vaccine candidate is effective at preventing the Zika virus passing from mother to fetus in preclinical animal ...
Tag: Zika
Sterilizing Male Mosquitoes with Gene Editing to Reduce Disease Spread
Rendering certain male mosquitoes infertile with CRISPR-Cas9 techniques could slow the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Researchers at the Army’s Institute for ...
Can Zika Trigger ADE? New Research Shows How Antibodies Stick To and Block Zika Virus
The Zika outbreak of 2015 and 2016 is having lasting impacts on children whose mothers became infected with the virus ...
Stopping Zika: Engineering an Alternative to ‘Suicide Mosquitoes’
A new study from the University of Missouri and Colorado State University outlines the application of CRISPR gene-editing technology to ...
Tetracycline-based Antibiotics Show Promise for Combating Zika Infections
A widely used antibiotic methacycline was shown effective at preventing brain infections and reducing neurological problems associated with Zika virus ...
Stopping Zika Could Depend on Getting T Cells and Antibodies to Work Together
Where Aedes mosquitoes fly, Zika virus may not be far behind. Although the explosive 2015-2016 Zika epidemics in the Americas ...
People with Zika Antibodies More Vulnerable to Severe Dengue Disease
Getting sick with the mosquito-borne Zika virus makes people more vulnerable to developing dengue disease later on, and to suffering ...
Study Indicates The Need to Revise Protocol for Detecting Zika in Placenta
Shortly after the explosion in microcephaly cases caused by Zika virus in Brazil in 2015-16, several scientific studies were published ...
Revocation of Emergency Use Authorizations of Zika, Ebola Diagnostics
OraSure and DiaSorin diagnostics received other classifications for use which removed them from EUA eligibility. The following is a summarized ...
Understanding Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Zika Transmission
In most cases, mosquitoes of the genus Aedes transmit the Zika virus to humans. Primary vectors are the yellow fever ...
FDA Authorizes Marketing of First Diagnostic Test for Zika Virus Antibodies
The marketing authorization does not impact the availability of the 14 other Zika nucleic acid diagnostics available under EUAs. Today, ...
DCN Diagnostics and E25Bio Partner on Point-of-Care Diagnostics
DCN Dx, a developer and manufacturer of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, and E25Bio, an MIT-spinoff diagnostics company from the Gehrke ...
First Human Trial of Live, Attenuated Zika Vaccine Begins
Vaccinations have begun in a first-in-human trial of an experimental Zika virus vaccine, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...
Invasive Mosquitoes in California Capable of Transmitting Zika
Over the last five years, Zika virus has emerged as a significant global human health threat following outbreaks in South ...
The Emergence of Usutu Virus in Europe
Researchers are taking stock of the emergence of Usutu virus in Europe, a mosquito-borne virus that circulates between birds. It ...
Stopping Pandemic X: DARPA Names Researchers Working to Halt Outbreaks
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched the Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) program in 2017, with the eventual goal of halting the spread ...
WHO Updates Blueprint List of Priority Diseases
The 2018 review of the World Health Organization’s Blueprint list of priority diseases occurred February 6-7, 2018. Given their potential ...
Zika Vaccine: Takeda Initiates Phase 1 Trial of TAK-426
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited today announced that its purified, inactivated, alum-adjuvanted, whole Zika virus vaccine candidate (TAK-426) has progressed into ...
FDA Approves Roche Zika Virus Test for Blood Donation Screening
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Roche Molecular Systems’ cobas Zika test, the first commercially available test for ...
NIAID Seeks Support Services for Infectious Diseases Research
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is competing a support contract for scientific, professional and technical expertise ...
