Drug Development Pharma - August 13, 2015
New vaccine against Ebola virus
The Research Council of Norway’s Programme for Global Health and Vaccination Research (GLOBVAC) is co-funding testing of a new vaccine against Ebola. Preliminary results from the Norwegian-led trial underway in Guinea, published in the medical journal The Lancet, indicate that the vaccine may provide complete protection against Ebola virus disease. The vaccine study is a […]
Uncategorized - March 26, 2015
Diabetic Pancreas Cells Recover
Pancreases of patients with type 1 diabetes can regain the ability to produce insulin when cells are given the chance to recover outside the body, researchers have demonstrated. Professor Knut Dahl-Jørgensen and doctoral student Lars Krogvold at the University of Oslo are leading a research project (DiViD) to try to determine, among other things, if […]
Uncategorized - December 8, 2014
Virus May Cause Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers have found a virus in the pancreas of patients with type 1 diabetes. The discovery may offer the potential for both treatment and a vaccine. For many years it has been suspected that a virus is a possible cause of type 1 diabetes. A new study has found a virus present in the pancreas […]
