Immunology
Rotavirus outsources cellular protein CK1α to assemble virus factories
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Rotaviruses, like all viruses, reproduce inside living cells. Making new viruses requires assembling replication factories...
UMSOM and GRAS begin second typhoid conjugate vaccine study in africa
Scientists to vaccinate 250 Participants in Burkina Faso with typhoid conjugate vaccineCredit: Matthew Laurens, University of Maryland School of Medicine...
A new approach to studying the flu
A clever repurposing of a biological tool gives researchers new clues as to how the flu remains so successfulCredit: Washington...
Montana State-led project to prevent bat-borne diseases wins $10 million grant
Credit: Shirley Plowright BOZEMAN -- In an effort to prevent some of the world's most lethal diseases, an international research...
FluChip-8G® insight evaluated for enhanced influenza surveillance in Southeast Asia
InDevR collaborating with Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences to test FluChip-8G Insight™Credit: InDevR, Inc. BOULDER (12/4/18) -- InDevR...
Europeans and Africans have different immune systems, and neanderthals are partly to thank
Credit: Quach et al./Cell 2016 It's long been clear that people from different parts of the world differ in their...
HIV cure hope thanks to collaboration
Researchers are hopeful of a cure for HIV after treating the first patient with a promising new treatment that could...
Where you live shapes your immune system more than your genes
Like fingerprints, immune systems vary from person to person. And although we all inherit a unique set of genes that...
Rare flu-thwarting mutation discovered
A rare and improbable mutation in a protein encoded by an influenza virus renders the virus defenseless against the body’s...
Fatty diet activates oldest branch of immune system, causing intestinal tumors
A high-fat-diet-induced immune reaction causes inflammation leading to intestinal cancer in a mouse model — even among animals that are...
How ‘hair-of-the-dog’ approach works to treat allergies, mouse study shows
The hair-of-the-dog-that-bit-you is a time-honored allergy remedy for a good reason: It works. A research team led by Duke Health,...
Molecular switch controlling immune suppression may help turn up immunotherapies
False-colored scanning electron micrograph depicts oral squamous cancer cell (white) being attacked by to T cells (red), part of the...
Mucosa forms special immunological memory – Breakthrough for vaccine research
If a vaccine is to protect the intestines and other mucous membranes in the body, it also needs to be...
NYU biologist Ghedin to study Zika virus during infection under $1 million grant
Elodie Ghedin, a professor in NYU’s Department of Biology and College of Global Public HealthNew York University biologist Elodie Ghedin...
Biochemists’ discovery could lead to vaccine against ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria
Streptococcus Bacteria Credit: WikimediaBiochemists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered patterns in the outer protein coat of...
Study suggests ways to improved immunity in older people
A study from Oxford and Basel universities may point the way to maintaining our immune systems as we get older....
Monkeys with Sudan ebolavirus treated successfully
Cynthia Goldsmith This colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion....
Methamphetamine and skin wounds: NYIT researcher wins NIH grant to study immune response
A chance observation in a Southern California fast food restaurant led Luis Martinez, Ph.D., to wonder about the connections behind...
Flesh-eating infections in rheumatoid arthritis patients spur new discovery
Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking medications that inhibit interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), a molecule that stimulates the immune system, are 300 times more...
How to engineer a stronger immune system
Photo Credit: Elisabeth Fall SAN FRANCISCO, CA–With a trick of engineering, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes improved a potential weapon...
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