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Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection

Using lysins, a protein from viruses that infect bacteria, scientists have developed a novel way to prevent kids from developing middle ear infections.

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1. Effective HIV control may depend on viral protein targeted by immune cells
   12-17-2006 · EurekAlert!
   An effective response of the immune system's "killer" T cells against infection with HIV may depend on exactly which viral protein is targeted, according to an international group of researchers. A new study finds that HIV-infected individuals in whom virus-specific CD8 T cells are targeted against the Gag protein have lower viral levels than do those with CD8 responses directed against other viral proteins.
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2. Pill box organizers increase HIV patients' adherence and improve viral suppression
   08-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Inexpensive pill box organizers are an easy, successful, and cost-effective tool to help patients take their medications as prescribed, according to a new study of low-income urban residents living with HIV infection by authors from the Berkeley School of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco. The research is published in the Oct. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online.
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3. Viral infection affects important cells' stress response
   11-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Viral infection disrupts the normal response of mammalian cells to outside deleterious forces, cleaving and inactivating a protein called G3BP that helps drive the formation of stress granules, which shelter the messenger RNAs that carry the code for protein formation, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
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4. New approach to improving diarrhea in infants with probiotics
   09-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Each year more than half a million infants worldwide, primarily in developing countries, die from diarrhea caused by rotavirus. Even in industrialized countries management of the infection costs economies about $1 billion a year. Now a study in the online open access journal, BMC Microbiology demonstrates that with the addition of probiotic bacteria, preventative measures can potentially be made far cheaper but just as effective.
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5. Researchers discover new battleground for viruses and immune cells
   02-06-2008 · EurekAlert!
   Vaccines have led to many of the world's greatest public health triumphs, but many deadly viruses, such as HIV, still elude the best efforts of scientists to develop effective vaccines against them. An improved understanding of how the immune system operates during a viral infection is critical to designing successful anti-virus vaccines. Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, have added an important dimension to this knowledge.
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6. New target for HIV/AIDS drugs and vaccine discovered
   07-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers from Rome, Italy, describe a finding in the August 2007 print issue of the FASEB Journal that could lead to new drugs to fight the HIV/AIDS virus, as well as new vaccines to prevent infection. In this report, researchers demonstrate for the first time how the HIV-1 Nef viral protein delivers a one-two punch to the body's innate immune system.
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7. Cow protein aids in treatment of gastrointestinal disorder
   05-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Recent evidence suggests that therapy currently used to treat Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection, a major cause of upper gastrointestinal disorders, is unsuccessful in around 25 percent of cases. A new study, published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, finds that adding a bovine protein called lactoferrin to the existing treatment may yield more effective results, with fewer of the side effects associated with common antibiotic treatment.
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8. Early-stage immune system control of HIV may depend on inherited factors
   11-03-2006 · EurekAlert!
   How well an individual's immune system controls HIV during the earliest phases of infection appears to depend on both the specific versions of key immune-system molecules called HLA Class I that have been inherited, as well as on the fragments of viral protein those molecules display to the T lymphocytes that usually destroy infected cells.
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9. A taxing issue: How human T-lymphotropic virus
   01-30-2008 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers have identified a potential new mechanism through which human T-lymphotropic virus type-1 causes leukemia in adults. The findings, published this week in the online open access journal Retrovirology, represent the first time that a reduction in histone protein levels has been linked to viral infection and the development of cancer.
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10. Immune cells fighting chronic infections become progressively 'exhausted,' ineffective
    10-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
    A new study of immune cells battling a chronic viral infection shows that the cells, called T cells, become exhausted by the fight in specific ways, undergoing profound changes that make them progressively less effective over time. The findings also point to interventions that would reverse the changes, suggesting that novel therapies could be developed to reinvigorate T cells that become depleted in their struggle against a virus.
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