Immune System News
May 3, 2024
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May 3, 2024 The placenta's response to infections from malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria has been mapped in high resolution, possibly paving the way for new treatment ...
May 2, 2024 Researchers have deciphered the complex interplay of various enzymes around the innate immune receptor toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7), which plays an important role in defending our bodies against ...
May 1, 2024 The brain can direct the immune system to an unexpected degree, capable of detecting, ramping up and tamping down inflammation, shows a new study in ...
Apr. 29, 2024 Scientists say that an experimental monoclonal antibody drug called mAb43 appears to prevent and reverse the onset of clinical type 1 diabetes in mice, and in some cases, to lengthen the animals' ...
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May 3, 2024 Scientists have discovered how glioblastoma evades the immune system by inducing pro-tumor macrophages via a glucose based epigenetic ...
May 2, 2024 A new study has revealed an association between favorable survival outcomes for melanoma patients and the presence of higher populations of ...
May 1, 2024 An mRNA cancer vaccine quickly reprogrammed the immune system to attack the most aggressive type of brain tumor in a first-ever human clinical ...
Apr. 30, 2024 Researchers have identified a mechanism that can improve current immunotherapies by regulating cholesterol levels. The study shows the potential of ...
Apr. 8, 2024 One of the remaining mysteries of the human immune system is why a certain cell, called a B cell, which retains a memory for past infections -- ensuring we fight off diseases we have experienced ...
Apr. 8, 2024 People with long COVID have distinct patterns of inflammation detectable in the blood, which could potentially be targeted with immune ...
Apr. 18, 2024 A new study shows that immunity after a COVID-19 booster lasts much longer than the primary series alone. These findings are among other, sometimes ...
Apr. 24, 2024 When pathogens invade the body, the immune system must react immediately to prevent or contain an infection. But how do our defence cells stay ready when no attacker is in sight? Scientists have ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Adding a pre-ketone supplement -- a component of a high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet -- to a type of cancer therapy in a laboratory setting was highly effective for treating prostate cancer, ...
Apr. 26, 2024 Researchers have discovered in a preclinical model that cytokines, proteins that control immune response, circulating in maternal blood during ...
Earlier Headlines
May 3, 2024 Activated T cells that carry a certain marker protein on their surface are controlled by natural killer (NK) cells, another cell type of the immune system. In this way, the body presumably curbs ...
Apr. 25, 2024 Researchers have found that vitamin D encourages the growth of a type of gut bacteria in mice which improves immunity to ...
Apr. 25, 2024 Chemokines are signalling proteins that orchestrate the interaction of immune cells against pathogens and tumors. To understand this complex network, various techniques have been developed to ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Tumors actively prevent the formation of immune responses by so-called cytotoxic T cells, which are essential in combating cancer. Researchers have now uncovered for the first time how this exactly ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Study identifies key pathways underlying perianal fistula, a disease complication that is more prevalent and severe in African American ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Some pathogens hide inside human cells to enhance their survival. Researchers have uncovered a unique tactic certain bacteria use to spread in the body without being detected by the immune system. In ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Scientists are developing and validating a patent-pending novel immunotherapy to be used against glioblastoma brain tumors. Glioblastomas are almost always lethal with a median survival time of 14 ...
Apr. 19, 2024 Researchers explore a cancer immunotherapy treatment that involves activating the immune cells in the body and reprogramming them to attack and destroy cancer cells. This therapeutic method ...
Apr. 19, 2024 In a discovery that could hasten treatment for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), scientists have discovered a harbinger in the blood of some people who later went on to develop the ...
Apr. 19, 2024 Researchers have designed a new method for developing immunotherapy drugs using engineered peptides to elicit a natural immune response inside the ...
Apr. 18, 2024 The annual influenza vaccine has become less effective on average over time. One reason may be reduced vaccine efficacy in people with obesity than those with a healthier body mass index (BMI), while ...
Apr. 18, 2024 Two siblings who have the only known mutations in a key gene anywhere in the world have helped scientists gain new insights that could help progress the search for new treatments in type 1 ...
Apr. 16, 2024 New research explains why metastatic uveal melanoma is resistant to conventional immunotherapies and how adoptive therapy, which involves growing a patient's T cells outside the body before ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the ...
Apr. 10, 2024 Cortisone and other related glucocorticoids are extremely effective at curbing excessive immune reactions. But previously, astonishingly little was known about how they exactly do that. Researchers ...
Apr. 10, 2024 Findings show a newly created drug can prevent runaway inflammation while still allowing the immune system to handle the virus, even when given late into ...
Apr. 10, 2024 CAR T cell therapy has revolutionized the way certain types of cancer are treated, and the longer those CAR T cells live in a patient's body, the more effectively they respond to cancer. Now, ...
Apr. 10, 2024 Scientists have identified sugar abnormalities in the blood that may promote biological aging and inflammation in people living with ...
Apr. 10, 2024 One of the molecules responsible for triggering the inflammation that causes allergic respiratory diseases, such as asthma and allergic rhinitis, has just been discovered. This molecule, from the ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Research into the protective effects of two anti-inflammatory molecules, transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF 1) and Heligmosomoides polygyrus TGM (HpTGM), following heart attack found that both ...
Friday, May 3, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Vitamin D Alters Mouse Gut Bacteria to Give Better Cancer Immunity
- How Immune Cells Communicate to Fight Viruses
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Tumor Cells Evade the Immune System Early On: Newly Discovered Mechanism Could Significantly Improve Cancer Immunotherapies
- Apply Single-Cell Analysis to Reveal Mechanisms of a Common Complication of Crohn's Disease
Monday, April 22, 2024
- The Enemy Within: How Pathogens Spread Unrecognized in the Body
- Genetically Engineering a Treatment for Incurable Brain Tumors
Friday, April 19, 2024
- Researchers Develop a New Way to Safely Boost Immune Cells to Fight Cancer
- Signs of Multiple Sclerosis Show Up in Blood Years Before Symptoms
- Study Opens New Avenue for Immunotherapy Drug Development
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Metabolic Health Before Vaccination Determines Effectiveness of Anti-Flu Response
- Siblings With Unique Genetic Change Help Scientists Progress Drug Search for Type 1 Diabetes
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- How the Body Switches out of 'fight' Mode
- New Drug Prevents Flu-Related Inflammation and Lung Damage
- Researchers Identify Protein That Controls CAR T Cell Longevity
- Scientists Identify Pro-Aging 'sugar Signature' In the Blood of People Living With HIV
- Respiratory Allergies: Newly Discovered Molecule Plays a Major Role in Triggering Inflammation
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- Treatment With Anti-Inflammatory Proteins Following Heart Attack Shows Promise to Reduce the Risk of Further Heart Damage
- New Research Offers Insight Into the Future Understanding of MS and Its Treatments
- Mitochondrial Roles in Antiviral Immunity Modify Manifestations of Neurological Diseases
- Discovery Into How Chronic Lung Conditions Affect Children's Immune System
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's Disease Shows Promise in Mouse Study
- Hope for Treating Autoimmune Diseases
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Investigators Develop Novel Treatment for T-Cell Leukemias and Lymphomas
- Gene Analysis Generates Spatial Map of Intestinal Cells and Traces Their Trajectories During Gut Inflammation
Monday, April 1, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- A Combination of Approved Drugs Enhances the Delivery of Anti-Bacterial Medications to Treat Tuberculosis
- Making Long-Term Memories Requires Nerve-Cell Damage
- Researchers Create Biocompatible Nanoparticles to Enhance Systemic Delivery of Cancer Immunotherapy
- Old Immune Systems Revitalized in Mouse Study, Improving Vaccine Response
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Researchers a Step Closer to a Cure for HIV
- Genetically Engineered Dendritic Cells Enhance the Power of Immunotherapy Against Lung Cancer
Monday, March 25, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
- An Immunotherapy to Overcome Resistant Leukemia
- Immune Cells Identified as Key Players in Brain Health
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Severe Lung Infection During COVID-19 Can Cause Damage to the Heart
- Cellular Architecture of Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis Now Mapped out
- Heat Exposure May Increase Inflammation and Impair the Immune System
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Monday, March 18, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
- Researchers Identify a Signaling Molecule in Neuroblastoma Immunosuppression and Aggressiveness
- Key Metabolic Process Responsible for Rapid Immune Responses Discovered
- Gut Bacteria Make Neurotransmitters to Shape the Newborn Immune System
- DNA Origami-Based Vaccines Toward Safe and Highly-Effective Precision Cancer Immunotherapy
- Machine Learning Classifier Accelerates the Development of Cellular Immunotherapies
- Why Some Newborns Develop Severe Infections
- New Understanding of the Gut Immune System May Hold Promise for Crohn's Disease Patients
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- 'Dual-Target' Cell Therapy Appears to Shrink Brain Tumors, Research Finds
- Sting Operation out of Gas
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Monday, March 11, 2024
Friday, March 8, 2024
- 'Double Life' Of Key Immune Protein Reveals New Strategies for Treating Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases
- Immunology: Good Sleep Stimulates the Immune System
- Optimizing Boosters: How COVID mRNA Vaccines Reshape Immune Memory After Each Dose
- Researchers Open New Leads in Anti-HIV Drug Development, Using a Compound Found in Nature
- COVID-19 Virus Can Stay in the Body More Than a Year After Infection
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- In Fight Against Brain Pathogens, the Eyes Have It
- The 'switch' That Keeps the Immune System from Attacking the Body
- How Early-Stage Cancer Cells Hide from the Immune System
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Friday, February 23, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
- TB Vaccine Shrinks Liver Cancer Tumors in Mice
- Possible Trigger for Autoimmune Diseases Discovered : B Cells Teach T Cells Which Targets Must Not Be Attacked
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- Fasting-Like Diet Lowers Risk Factors for Disease, Reduces Biological Age in Humans
- The Immune System's Moonlighters
Thursday, February 15, 2024
- Study Finds New Inhalable Therapy Is a Big Step Forward in Lung Cancer Research
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Number of Patients Is Expected to Double Due to Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Inflammation: Targeting the Transporter
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
- Scientists Discover Hidden Army of Lung Flu Fighters
- Researchers Characterize the Immune Landscape in Cancer
- Smoking Has Long-Term Effects on the Immune System
- Nanoparticles That Can Light Up the Lymph Node Cancer Cells Otherwise Undetectable by MRI
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Friday, February 9, 2024
- Immune Genes Are Altered in Alzheimer's Patients' Blood
- How Tumors Induce Immune Suppressor Cells and Evade Immunotherapy
Thursday, February 8, 2024
- Scientists Debunk Role of 'junk Cells' In Fight Against Malaria
- New PET Tracer Detects Inflammatory Arthritis Before Symptoms Appear
- Faulty DNA Disposal System Causes Inflammation
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- New Direct Links Discovered Between the Brain and Its Surrounding Environment
- Stress Influences Brain and Psyche Via Immune System
- Gut Microbiome Changes During Pregnancy May Influence Immune System Response
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
- Switching Arms Improves Effectiveness of Two-Dose Vaccinations, Study Suggests
- New Cell Therapy Shows Promise With ARDS Patients
- Discovery May Enable an Effective Long-Term Lupus Treatment
- How T Cells Combat Tuberculosis
Monday, February 5, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
- Brain Protein's Virus-Like Structure May Help Explain Cancer-Induced Memory Loss
- Molecule Can Quickly, and Briefly, Boost White Blood Cell Counts
- When and How Immune Cells Decide to Form Pathogen Memories