Immunology
New mechanism for unleashing immune system against cancer
A major discovery that brings a new drug target to the increasingly exciting landscape of cancer immunotherapy was published yesterday...
HIV successfully treated in prison and jail
Prisoners with HIV fare well with treatment during incarceration, a Yale study has found. The authors write that, with the...
Immune cell defenders protect us from bacteria invasion
An international team of researchers including University of Melbourne staff has identified the exact biochemical key that awakes the body’s...
Can antibiotics cause autoimmunity?
The code for every gene includes a message at the end of it that signals the translation machinery to stop....
New technique brings us closer to HIV and hepatitis C vaccines
Plans for a new type of DNA vaccine to protect against the deadly HIV and Hepatitis C viruses have taken...
Dendritic cell research a step toward improved vaccines
Eyal Amiel didn't think he wanted to study immunology, let alone make a career of it. But as co-author of...
Major breakthrough in developing new cancer drugs
The Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal (UdeM), in collaboration with the Maisonneuve-Rosemont...
Studies show big promise for HIV prevention drug
Exciting research suggests that a shot every one to three months may someday give an alternative to the daily pills...
It slices, it dices, and it protects the body from harm
Researchers at Princeton University have discovered the 3D structure of an enzyme that cuts to ribbons the genetic material of...
Magnetic medicine: Nanoparticles and magnetic fields train immune cells to fight cancer in mice
Using tiny particles designed to target cancer-fighting immune cells, Johns Hopkins researchers have trained the immune systems of mice to...
Immune cells regulate blood stem cells
Researchers in Bern have discovered that, during a viral infection, immune cells control the blood stem cells in the bone...
HIV Drug Used to Reverse Effects of Virus That Causes Cervical Cancer
A commonly-used HIV drug has been shown to kill-off the human papilloma virus (HPV) that leads to cervical cancer in...
A ‘game-changer’ for HIV/AIDS
Second-year bioengineering doctoral student Sylvia Natividad-Diaz may have found a way around a persistent obstacle in the treatment of HIV/AIDS—identifying...
Researchers develop promising method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies
In 2011, biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) demonstrated a highly effective method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies to...