Immunoengineering researchers decode the 'cytokine storm' in sepsis
Sepsis—when an infection causes the immune system to improperly target the body—is one of the leading causes of death in the ICU.
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Sepsis—when an infection causes the immune system to improperly target the body—is one of the leading causes of death in the ICU.
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An important aspect to aging is how the immune system changes over time. Such changes have consequences, and they contribute to the greater risk for severe infections and other diseases such as cancer in the aging population. ...
Jan 5, 2024
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In a scientific breakthrough that aids our understanding of the internal wiring of immune cells, researchers at Monash University in Australia have cracked the code behind Ikaros, an essential protein for immune cell development ...
Jan 5, 2024
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One to two weeks after contracting COVID, the SARS-CoV-2 virus generally becomes undetectable in the upper respiratory tract. But does that mean that it is no longer present in the body? To find out, a team from the Institut ...
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Major work led by Dr. André Veillette's team at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), in collaboration with a group of researchers, and just published in Nature Immunology, managed to identify a previously ...
Nov 16, 2023
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Investigator Ming Li, Ph.D., has dedicated his career to understanding the intricate workings of the immune system—both in general and for the critical role it plays in cancer.
Nov 14, 2023
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CAR-T cell therapy is a last hope for many patients with blood, bone marrow or lymph gland cancer when other treatments such as chemotherapy are unsuccessful. A limiting factor of this otherwise very effective and safe therapy ...
Nov 6, 2023
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Many common diseases such as arteriosclerosis and diabetes or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's are associated with inflammatory processes. A better understanding of these processes is therefore an important ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Researchers from UNSW Sydney and Stanford University have shown that dengue virus can disrupt the immune system in children, leading to more severe disease. These changes in the immune system, referred to as "immune confusion," ...
Oct 31, 2023
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Many tiny organisms including bacteria, fungi and viruses normally live on our bodies, and even inside us. These are called the microbiome. The large number of these organisms living in the gastrointestinal tract are collectively ...
Oct 28, 2023
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