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Four of the city's large research institutions announced Wednesday they have formed a partnership to develop new vaccines. All four already have vaccine research under way. The new partnership, called the San Antonio Vaccine Development Center, could have almost $1 million in new funds to spur scientists in new directions, said Kenneth Trevett, president of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.
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Emergence of resistance to the drug artemisinin in western Thailand has created a critical point in global efforts to control and eliminate malaria worldwide, according to researchers at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and their collaborators in Thailand. A second study by the same research groups, identifies a major region of the malaria parasite genome associated with artemisinin resistance, raising hope that there will soon be effective molecular markers for monitoring the spread of resistance.
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Two off-the-shelf cancer drugs blocked the deadly Ebola virus from reproducing in the test tube — an early, promising advance in a disease and potential biological weapon with no approved treatments or vaccine, scientists report.
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Texas Biomed scientists have discovered a new animal model which could be effective in research to combat deadly viruses that can be used by bioterrorists and for which there currently are no vaccines.
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Scientists here are rewriting an early chapter of the history books that describes how and when humans first set foot on North American soil, based on clues extracted from the blood of their San Antonio descendants.
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Scientists at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and Yale University have identified a new target area in the human genome that appears to harbor genes with a major role in the onset of depression.
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A new study that included hundreds of San Antonio Hispanics found that that a person's genes play a strong role in how the immune system responds to 13 common infections.
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A National Institutes of Health (NIH) oversight team has found that the 14 chimpanzees transferred from the Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) in New Mexico to Texas Biomed’s primate center in 2010 are “in excellent condition and receiving appropriate husbandry and veterinary medical care.”
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The family of Thomas Baker Slick Jr., founder of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and other science organizations in San Antonio, has donated his papers to the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Libraries Special Collections. The transfer was scheduled for August 12, 2011.
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Mayor Julián Castro and Lew Moorman, President, Cloud and Chief Strategy Officer at Rackspace Hosting, have been elected to the Texas Biomedical Research Institute board of trustees.
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