Clinical Outcomes of Specific Immunotherapy in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jiang Chen, Guo Xiao-Zhong, Xing-Shun Qi

“…Specific immunotherapies, including vaccines with autologous tumor cells and tumor antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies, are important treatments for PC patients. …”
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Nucleic acid therapeutics: Past, present, and future by Sajid Naeem, Ju Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yu Wang

“…The field of nucleic acid therapeutics has been brought to the forefront by the rapid development of vaccines against COVID-19, followed by a number of approvals for clinical use including much anticipated CRISPR-Cas9. …”
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Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV: Could this virus become a possible global pandemic by Vengadesh Letchumanan, Nurul-Syakima Ab Mutalib, Bey-Hing Goh, Learn-Han Lee

“…At this point, there is no specific drug or vaccine to treat infected patients besides supportive care. …”
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HIV and Malnutrition: Effects on Immune System by Shalini Duggal, Tulsi Das Chugh, Ashish Kumar Duggal

“…Continuous research is being done in many parts of the world regarding its treatment and vaccine development, and a lot of money has flown into this. …”
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Retroviral and Lentiviral Vectors for the Induction of Immunological Tolerance by Inès Dufait, Therese Liechtenstein, Alessio Lanna, Christopher Bricogne, Roberta Laranga, Antonella Padella, Karine Breckpot, David Escors

“…They have been used for some time for gene therapy and the development of gene vaccines. Recently retroviral and lentiviral vectors have been used to generate tolerogenic dendritic cells, key professional antigen presenting cells that regulate immune responses. …”
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Development and Validation of Chlamydia muridarum Mouse Models for Studying Genital Tract Infection Pathogenesis by Yihui Wang, Zixuan Han, Luying Wang, Xin Sun, Qi Tian, Tianyuan Zhang

“…Animal infection models play significant roles in the study of bacterial pathogenic mechanisms and host–pathogen interactions, as well as in evaluating drug and vaccine efficacies. Chlamydia trachomatis is responsible for infections in various mucosal tissues, including the eyes and urogenital, respiratory, and gastrointestinal tracts. …”
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Trafficked Proteins—Druggable in Plasmodium falciparum? by Jasmin Lindner, Kamila Anna Meissner, Isolmar Schettert, Carsten Wrenger

“…Annually this parasitic disease leads to more than half a million deaths; most of these are children in Africa. An effective vaccine is not available, and the treatment of the disease is solely dependent on chemotherapy. …”
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Natural compounds from medicinal plants against COVID-19 by Anton Kolodnitsky, Nikita Ionov, Irina Gravel, Vladimir Poroikov

“…Nevertheless, all of them have certain limitations: uncertainty in duration, limited efficacy of vaccines, and lack of effective drugs for COVID-19 treatment. …”
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The Informed Consent in Allergology from a Scientific, Technological and Social Perspective by Marisela Luisa Pérez Pacaréu, Yanet Morejón del Rosario, Gloria Arlenys Suárez Rodríguez, Aleima Rodríguez Carbajal

“…This paper reviews the application of the informed consent within the specialty of allergology in procedures (skin tests), therapeutic interventions (immunotherapy) and research (clinical trials) from a scientific, technological and social perspective, based on the advances achieved in Cuba in recent years to obtain better allergenic extracts for testing, high-quality vaccines and new drugs to benefit the allergic patient. …”
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[IN1438] Dengue and Dengue Virus in Florida by Yasmin V. Ortiz, Daniel W. Pérez-Ramos, Eric P. Caragata, Panpim Thongsripong

“…The biology and ecology of the primary vectors, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, play  important roles in the disease's transmission cycle. No vaccine and no specific antiviral treatments are yet available, and diagnosis is difficult because dengue symptoms overlap with those of other, similar febrile illnesses. …”
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Omicron: The rising fear for another wave in Malaysia by Lydia Ngiik-Shiew Law, Ke-Yan Loo, Joanna Xuan Hui Goh, Priyia Pusparajah

“…Pharmaceutical companies raced against the time to develop vaccines, believing that it would be sufficient to control COVID-19. …”
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EDITORIAL PAPER - MEDICAL TECHNIQUES by JT ADMIN

“…Health technology research could be in the form of procedures, vaccines, devices and systems as outlined by the world health organization in its Health technology assessment report. …”
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Mange in Rabbits: An Ectoparasitic Disease with a Zoonotic Potential by Wafaa A. Abd El-Ghany

“…Control measures mainly depend on the use of different types of systemic and topical acaricides and the use of natural products and supportive elements. Vaccine is not commercially available and is still under investigation. …”
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Evaluation of IgG binding capability to SARS-CoV-2 variants in early COVID-19 convalescent sera using an indirect ELISA by Behzad Hussain, Peizhe Zhao, Yu Liu, Bo Yang, Xiaoxiong Li, Zhichao Zhang, Guoqiang Feng, Demei Zhang, Defen Lu, Wu Changxin

“…These results indicate that the patients recovering from natural infection of early original Wuhan strain may have the potential to resist infection of current circulating variants and the vaccines using the prototype antigen may still work for newly emerged variants.…”
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On-farm hatching and contact with adult hen post hatch induce sex-dependent effects on performance, health and robustness in broiler chickens by Guilloteau, Laurence A, Bertin, Aline, Crochet, Sabine, Bagnard, Charlotte, Hondelatte, Alice, Ravon, Laure, Schouler, Catherine, Germain, Karine, Collin, Anne

“…On their return to the original room, the chicken density was increased, and birds were orally vaccinated with the Gumboro vaccine. The impacts of these conditions on hatchability, chick quality score, performance, health and robustness were determined. …”
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Short-term effects of air pollution on the infectious disease spectrum in Shanghai, China: a time-series analysis from 2013 to 2019 by Yihan Lin, Hao Meng, Yong He, Wenzhuo Liang, Yiran Niu, Zhenliang Liu, Ziying Wang, Yangyang Tian, Shiyang Chang

“…A 10 μg/m3 increase in O3 was associated with a higher risk of total NNIDs (relative risk [RR] at lag 1 month: 1.29, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.02–1.65), vaccine-preventable diseases (RR at lag 1 month: 1.75, 95% CI: 1.02–3.01), and sexually transmitted and bloodborne diseases (RR at lag 2 month: 1.12, 95% CI: 1.00–1.26). …”
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Du macaque rhésus au macaque fascicularis : le refus de l’Inde de l’exportation de ses rhésus (1970-1990) by Laure Hoenen

“…The use of the rhesus monkey as an animal model in biomedical research during the 1950’s, principally for toxicity tests and polio vaccine production, fostered a dependence upon countries that exported these animals. …”
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Recent Advances in Peptide-Loaded PLGA Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine by Hossein Omidian, Renae L. Wilson, Ana M. Castejon

“…The versatility of PLGA nanocarriers extends across therapeutic domains, including cancer therapy, neurodegenerative diseases, vaccine development, and regenerative medicine. Innovations in polymer chemistry, surface functionalization, and advanced manufacturing techniques, such as microfluidics and electrospraying, have further enhanced the efficacy and scalability of these systems. …”
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Transgenic Killer Commensal Bacteria as Mucosal Protectants by Luciano Polonelli

“…Unfortunately, current strategies for mucosal protection against candidiasis are severely limited by the lack of effective vaccines and the relative paucity and toxicity of commercially available antifungal drugs. …”
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A SEIR Epidemic Model of Whooping Cough-Like Infections and Its Dynamically Consistent Approximation by M.M. Alqarni, Arooj Nasir, Maryam Ahmed Alyami, Ali Raza, Jan Awrejcewicz, Muhammad Rafiq, Nauman Ahmed, Tahira Sumbal Shaikh, Emad E. Mahmoud

“…Through the study, we investigated the whole population into the four classes susceptible (S), exposed (E), infected (I), and vaccinated or recovered (R). The transmission dynamics of whooping cough disease are studied analytically and numerically. …”
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