Tag: Immunology/Allergies/Asthma

People who develop severe COVID-19 have markedly blunted antiviral responses in the nasopharynxCredit: BioRxiv Feb 20, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.20.431155 The body's ...

UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research

USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...

New insights into immune responses to malaria

Credit: WEHI, Australia Advanced technologies have been used to solve a long-standing mystery about why some people develop serious illness ...

Brain-repair discovery could lead to new epilepsy treatments

Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a previously unknown repair process ...

Less-sensitive COVID-19 tests may still achieve optimal results if enough people tested

July 22, 2021

Analysis suggests same epidemiological outcomes possible with rapid-antigen versus RT-PCR testsCredit: Philip Cherian, Sandeep Krishna and Gautam Menon, 2021, PLOS ...

Study innovates in gluten-free formulations, creating more palatable and nutritious bread

July 21, 2021

Study at the Federal University of São Paulo developed a recipe combining chickpea flour and psyllium, a plant-derived soluble fiber. ...

C is for Vitamin C — a key ingredient for immune cell function

July 21, 2021

Harnessing the combined power of Vitamin C and TET proteins may give scientists a leg up in treating autoimmune diseasesCredit: ...

Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 testing demonstrates power, versatility of academic labs

Credit: Clayton Metz/Virginia Tech In the early days of the pandemic, scientists at Virginia Tech created a COVID-19 testing laboratory ...

FDA approves Octapharma’s Octagam® 10% for adult dermatomyositis

FDA approval based on positive results of international, multi-center ProDERM studyCredit: Octapharma PARAMUS, N.J. - The U.S. Food and Drug ...

SARS-CoV-2 spike mutation L452R evades human immune response and enhances infectivity

Credit: Dr. Chihiro Motozono An international team of researchers led by Kumamoto and Tokyo Universities (Japan) have shown that the ...

No IgA leads to intestinal inflammation in mice

Credit: Department of Immunology, TMDU Tokyo, Japan - While researchers have known for years that immunoglobulin A (IgA) is important ...

Preparing T cells for the long haul

July 19, 2021

New LJI research could keep cancer-fighting T cells from burning out before the job is doneCredit: National Institutes of Health ...

A simple compound to control complex gut microbes