Researchers find link between exposure to world trade center dust and prostate cancer
(New York, NY - June 20, 2019) -- World Trade Center (WTC) responders with prostate cancer showed signs that exposure ...
Tag: Immunology/Allergies/Asthma
New biomarker test improves diagnosis of ovarian cancer
The majority of women who undergo surgery for suspected ovarian cancer do not have cancer. A novel blood test developed ...
Researchers learn dangerous brain parasite ‘orders in’ for dinner
Credit: Indiana University Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered how a dangerous parasite maintains a steady supply ...
How do vaping, the environment, lifestyle impact long-term lung health?
Millennial lung health will get its first focus with $24.8 million grantCredit: Northwestern University CHICAGO --- We don't yet know ...
Distinguishing helpful and harmful gut immune cells offers new view on inflammatory diseases
Microscopic image of Th17 immune cells taken from the gut of a healthy mouse. The nucleus is shown in blue, ...
New clues on tissue damage identified in rheumatoid arthritis and lupus
NIH AMP research lays groundwork for finding potential treatment targetsCredit: Camazine Scott Research supported by the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) ...
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, ...
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 ...
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