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A Vaccine That Works in Newborns? Promising Compound May Help Protect Babies During Vulnerable Window
March 4, 2013 — The underdeveloped immune systems of newborns don't respond to most vaccines, leaving them at high risk for infections like rotavirus, pertussis (whooping cough) and pneumococcus. Researchers have ... > full story -
Antigen-Encapsulated Chitosan Particles Improve Immune Response
March 4, 2013 — Biomedical engineering researchers have encapsulated two types of protein antigens in chitosan and demonstrated that the combined material enables or improves three important immune ... > full story -
Gene Discovery Reveals Importance of Eating Your Greens
March 4, 2013 — Eating your greens may be even more important that previously thought, with the discovery that an immune cell population essential for intestinal health could be controlled by leafy greens in your ... > full story -
Scientists Discover How to Shutdown Cancer's Powerful Master Protein
March 3, 2013 — The powerful master regulatory transcription factor called Bcl6 is key to the survival of a majority of aggressive lymphomas, which arise from the B-cells of the immune system. The protein has long ... > full story -
Cancer Vaccines Self-Sabotage, Channel Immune Attack to Injection Site
March 3, 2013 — Cancer vaccines that attempt to stimulate an immune system assault fail because the killer T cells aimed at tumors instead find the vaccination site a more inviting target, scientists ... > full story -
A Better Bone Marrow Transplant: Preventing Graft-Versus-Host Disease
March 1, 2013 — Bone marrow transplant is a key treatment for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and other blood ... > full story -
Tumors Deliberately Create Conditions That Inhibit Body's Best Immune Response
March 1, 2013 — New research reveals that tumors in melanoma patients deliberately create conditions that knock out the body's 'premier' immune defense and instead attract a weaker immune response unable to kill off ... > full story -
Important Control Mechanism Behind Autoimmune Diseases Discovered
March 1, 2013 — Researchers have discovered a new control mechanism in our immune system. The discovery is of potential significance to the treatment of serious diseases such as MS (multiple sclerosis), rheumatoid ... > full story -
Antibody Response Linked With Rejection in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
February 28, 2013 — A transplanted kidney has a finite life expectancy because it often becomes the target of the recipient's immune system, which may mount antibodies that attack the organ. Because there is a critical ... > full story -
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Uncovering How Deadly Bacteria Trick the Immune System
February 28, 2013 — A new study demonstrates how bacteria can pretend to be a virus and trick the immune system into sending out the wrong type of defense. Such manipulation sheds light on how the flu may make us more ... > full story
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