Immune failure can cause serious COVID-19
Persons with critical corona-disease may have antibodies blocking the body´s most important defence mechanisms.Credit: Ingvild Festervoll Melien While most people ...
Tag: Immunology/Allergies/Asthma
Finding its way to the top: How a cell surface receptor reaches its destination
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Production Coordinator, Augusta University Dr. Guangyu Wu is dissecting the molecular homing that enables a nascent protein ...
Bacterial toxin with healing effect
Research team from University of Jena (Germany) uncovers that a toxic substance found in Staphylococcus aureus stimulates tissue regenerationCredit: Jens ...
Unraveling the network of molecules that influence COVID-19 severity
Credit: Morgridge Institute for Research While most COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic or mild, severe complications associated with acute respiratory distress ...
Menacing assaults on science causing alarming and avoidable deaths in the U.S.
FAU Schmidt College of Medicine researchers publish commentary on COVID-19Credit: Florida Atlantic University COVID-19 is now the third leading cause ...
ALSA Ventures launches European biotech clinical accelerator ‘Eclipse’
ALSA Ventures, a London based European biotech investment firm today announced the launch of Eclipse, a novel clinical development accelerator ...
The making of memory B cells and long-term immune responses
Only B cells that express Bach2 and reduced mTORC1 activity can become memory B cells, the body's first responder to ...
The choroid plexus: A conduit for prenatal inflammation?
These tiny fronds of tissue protect the developing brain -- but may also pass on inflammation from the motherCredit: Shipley ...
NYUAD researchers discover immune evasion strategy used by Malaria-causing parasite
Findings could lay the foundation for the development of effective therapeutic and malaria vaccine strategies, which has largely been hindered ...
Coronavirus antibodies last at least three months after infection, study suggests
Credit: Temerty Faculty of Medicine Coronavirus antibodies can last at least three months after a person becomes infected with the ...
Effects of acute and chronic graft-versus-myelodysplastic syndrome on long-term outcomes following a
Credit: ©Takaaki Konuma Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a bone marrow failure disorder characterized by intractable cytopenia and dysplastic hematological changes. ...
Every COVID-19 case seems different; these scientists want to know why
Scientists in the US and UK publish first in-depth look at how CD4+ T cells fight SARS-CoV-2Credit: NIAID LA JOLLA--As ...
Dried blood spot sampling offers inexpensive way to widen access to antibody testing for COVID-19
Credit: University of Birmingham Using dried blood spot samples (DBS) is an accurate alternative to venous blood in detecting SARS-CoV-2 ...
University of Alberta virologist awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Michael Houghton discovered hepatitis C virus and now is developing a vaccineCredit: Photo: Michael Holly Michael Houghton was awarded the ...
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