First COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa begins
The first participants in South Africa's first clinical trial for a vaccine against Covid-19 will be vaccinated this weekCredit: WITS ...
Tag: Immunology/Allergies/Asthma
Females use anti-inflammatory T cells to keep their blood pressure down
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University In the face of a multipronged front to drive blood pressure up, including ...
LJI scientists investigate a powerful protein behind antibody development
Credit: Jinyong Choi, La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--Scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have ...
Renewed hope for treatment of pain and depression
Novel molecule targets a newly discovered opioid receptor with atypical properties and holds promise for alternative therapeutic strategiesCredit: LIH Researchers ...
The Parkinson’s disease gut has an overabundance of opportunistic pathogens
This novel finding will enable experimental studies to determine whether and how these microbes play a role in triggering the ...
Global team develops open-source N95 respirator
UMass Amherst lab produces 3D prototype pieces for design consultancyCredit: UMass Amherst In one of the latest COVID-19 response projects ...
Measles origin finding could inform COVID-19 research
Virus genome sequencing study and comment published in ScienceCredit: University of Sydney An international group of researchers has tackled the ...
Viruses can steal our genetic code to create new human-virus genes
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Like a scene out of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," a virus infects a host ...
Clear signs of brain injury with severe COVID-19
Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg Certain patients who receive hospital care for coronavirus infection (COVID-19) exhibit clinical and neurochemical signs ...
Call for caution for using a CAR-T immunotherapy against acute myeloid leukemia
Credit: Pablo Menéndez Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematological malignancy which incidence increases with age, that is biologically, phenotypically, ...
‘Relaxed’ T cells critical to immune response
Rice University researchers model how cells handle invaders, ignore impostersCredit: Hamid Teimouri/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 16, 2020) - Like ...
Antibodies against sugars, internal radiation: Powerful package against cervical cancer
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University The sugar coating on cancer cells helps them thrive, and a new study ...
Tuberculosis vaccine strengthens immune system
Study by the Universities of Bonn and Nijmegen explains how BCG vaccination reduces susceptibility to infectionsCredit: © University Bonn A ...
Putting ‘super’ in natural killer cells
Deleting an inhibitory gene in natural killer cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells is found to boost their anti-tumor ...
A novel mechanism that triggers a cellular immune response
Credit: National Cancer Institute Viruses and other disease-causing microbes influence the type of immune response their hosts will develop against ...
Reprogramming of immune system cures child with often-fatal fungal infection
UCLA team's approach suggests possible path toward treating other severe infectionsCredit: Nick Carranza / UCLA Health In the June 11 ...
UVA Health expanding food allergy research, clinical trials
Only Virginia hospital chosen for National Food Allergy Clinical NetworkCredit: UVA Health UVA Health and UVA Children's are increasing access ...
Glycolysis involved in immunosuppression by polyphenol; PCB2DG
Credit: Sachi Tanaka, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Department of Agriculture, Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Shinshu University ...
New method to identify genes that can drive development of brain tumors
Credit: Graphics: L. Gaffney Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a method for identifying functional mutations and their effect on ...
Biomedical sciences researcher gets $1.95 million federal grant to study cause of autoimmunity
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Leszek Ignatowicz, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has ...
