Reducing brain inflammation could treat tinnitus and other hearing loss-related disorders
Inflammation in a sound-processing region of the brain mediates ringing in the ears in mice that have noise-induced hearing loss, ...
Tag: Immunology/Allergies/Asthma
How hepatitis B and delta viruses establish infection of liver cells
Princeton University researchers explore infection using new cell culture systemCredit: Winer, et al., Princeton University Princeton University researchers have developed ...
Redundancies in T cells
Oncologists have had great success with cancer immunotherapy in recent years, especially with the approach known as immune checkpoint inhibition, ...
Researchers find genetic cause for fatal response to Hepatitis A
Credit: Belkaya et al., 2019 Researchers have identified a genetic mutation that caused an 11-year-old girl to suffer a fatal ...
Molecular switch for ‘exhaustion mode’ of immune cells discovered
Credit: D. Zehn / Technical University of Munich Tumors and certain viral infections pose a challenge to the human body ...
How to reinvigorate exhausted immune cells and stop cancer along the way
Penn study identifies protein that could be key to new immunotherapies PHILADELPHIA - The human immune system relies on a ...
First lung map uncovers new insights into asthma
Understanding lung cells and their signals could help towards finding new asthma drug targets For the first time, researchers have ...
Farm-like indoor microbiota may protect children from asthma also in urban homes
Credit: National Institute for Health and Welfare Earlier research has shown that growing up on a farm with animals may ...
Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, NIH-led mouse study shows
Complement system appears to be double-edged sword depending on the eye diseaseCredit: Wai Wong, M.D., Ph.D. A new study shows ...
Pew funds 22 scientists to pursue innovative biomedical research
PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced 22 early-career researchers who have been selected to join the Pew Scholars Program in ...
Pew funds biomedical research for 10 Latin American scientists
PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced the 2019 class members of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical ...
Seven cancer researchers selected as Pew-Stewart Scholars
PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust announced today the 2019 class members of the Pew-Stewart ...
New insight could improve maternal vaccines that also protect newborns
Understanding how a mother's antibodies are passed to the fetus is key to vaccine design DURHAM, N.C. - A team ...
Lowering cholesterol is not enough to reduce hyperactivity of the immune system
Hypercholesterolemia is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Statins are the most widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs. However, despite treatment ...
Antibody treatment allows transplant of mismatched stem cells, tissues in mice
A combination of six antibodies can successfully prepare mice to accept blood and immune stem cells from an immunologically mismatched ...
Rheumatoid arthritic pain could be caused by antibodies
Antibodies that exist in the joints before the onset of rheumatoid arthritis can cause pain even in the absence of ...
Researcher identifies adjuvant that prevents vaccine-enhanced respiratory disease in RSV
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--A unique adjuvant, a substance that enhances the body's immune response to toxins and foreign matter, ...
Lower risk of Type 1 diabetes seen in children vaccinated against ‘stomach flu’ virus
Type 1 diabetes rates one-third lower in children who received all doses of the rotavirus vaccine; study also shows many ...
2019 Michelson Prize winners push the next frontiers of human immunology
Credit: UCSF, courtesy of the Human Vaccines Project June 13, 2019 - The Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human ...
Tracking down silent killers
35 million euros for excellent research consortium to develop new immunotherapeutic treatments for emerging viral diseases Emerging viral diseases is ...
