Often undetected until it has progressed to an advanced stage, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a lethal cancer. The K-Ras mutant pancreatic cancer is one of the most common types. At present, there are no effective ...
Jun 6, 2022
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Biomarkers are often used during the management of cancer to guide treatment decisions and predict patient outcomes. However, it is often difficult to identify appropriate biomarkers that that can be consistently reproduced ...
May 18, 2022
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According to new research from Boston Medical Center, the antibody function known as antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and the ADCC sensitivity of HIV strains may influence the transmission of HIV from mother ...
Apr 20, 2022
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Dihydroartemisinin (DHA), an active metabolite of artemisinin and the most potent anti-malaria drug, is also used to treat autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and psoriasis. Since the first report ...
Mar 28, 2022
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Scientists have created a pipeline for identifying, prioritizing and evaluating potential tumor antigens for the fast generation of cancer vaccines, according to a report published today in eLife.
Mar 22, 2022
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In the clinical care of people living with HIV, various types of blood cells are routinely counted to assess the immune system, among them CD4+ cells, or T helper cells, and CD8+ cells, or cytotoxic T cells.
Mar 18, 2022
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People who gained immunity—either through vaccination or exposure—against the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, also are likely to have some protection against the pathogen's Omicron variant. ...
Mar 11, 2022
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Many questions about how exposure to SARS-CoV-2 by infection or immunization might result in long-term protective immunity remain unanswered. Onur Boyman, head of the Department of Immunology, and his research team at the ...
Feb 2, 2022
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Short bursts of radiation therapy dramatically enhanced the efficiency of targeting glioblastomas with natural nanoparticle-based immunotherapy, thus suppressing growth of the deadly tumor, inducing anti-tumor immunity and ...
Jan 31, 2022
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Researchers in Japan and the United States have found SARS-CoV-2 can knock out an important molecular pathway linked to an immune complex called MHC class I. The finding should help scientists better understand how COVID-19 ...
Dec 7, 2021
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