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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... that produce antibodies that block the viral infection," said contributing author Dr. Christopher Basler, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "The antibodies produced by these cells demonstrated remarkable power to block 1918 flu virus infection in mice, proving that, even nine decades after infection with this virus, survivors retain protection from...
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Curing Death by Curing Aging (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... professor of Pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Program in Vaccine Sciences, Christopher Basler, Ph.D., at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Eric Altschuler, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, is published online in the journal Nature. The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed nearly 50 million people worldwide, many...
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
“I am certain about that,” Peter Kurer told Swiss newspaper Basler Zeitung. “We have now laid the foundation for a new future. The risks have been reduced, costs lowered, strategy changed, the management board renewed, managers replaced.”
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... professor of Pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Program in Vaccine Sciences, Christopher Basler, Ph.D., at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Eric Altschuler, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, is published online in the journal Nature.The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed nearly 50 million people worldwide, many...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
For this study, 32 individuals who were born before 1918 and lived through the influenza pandemic were recruited by Dr. Eric Altschuler at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey to donate blood which was tested by Dr. Basler's lab for the presence of antibodies that recognize the 1918 virus. Dr. James Crowe and colleagues at Vanderbilt University produced antibodies from these...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... been preserved in the frozen soil of Alaska.Working with two other study leaders, Dr Christopher Basler, from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Dr Eric Altschuler, from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at the New Jersey Medical School, Crowe took blood samples from 32 survivors of the 1918 pandemic who were aged between 91 and 101 years. All the blood samples...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
In addition to revealing the surprisingly long-lasting immunity to such viruses, these antibodies could be effective treatments to have on hand if another virus similar to the 1918 flu breaks out in the future. The study, led by James Crowe Jr., M.D., professor of Pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Program in Vaccine Sciences, Christopher Basler, Ph.D., at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine,...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
... turn make antibodies to both flag and directly attack the targets.RESURRECTED VIRUSDr. Christopher Basler and colleagues at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York tested the 1918 survivors and found that in most of them, the B-cells made antibodies highly attuned to the 1918 flu strain.Dr. Terrence Tumpey at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had worked on a team...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS AG's chairman is sure the troubled Swiss bank will still be independent in two years' time, according to an interview published on Saturday."I am certain about that," Peter Kurer told Swiss newspaper Basler Zeitung."We have now laid the foundation for a new future. The risks have been reduced, costs lowered, strategy changed, the management board renewed, managers replaced,"...
