News tagged with immune response

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Sleeping sickness by stealth

(Medical Xpress)—Stealth is a well-known concept in military tactics. Almost since the invention of radar, the hunt began for counter-technologies to hide aircraft and missiles from detection – most successfully ...

Immunology created Feb 05, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Study pioneers treatment for viral infection common in children

Researchers at Imperial College London have discovered a new way in which a very common childhood disease could be treated. In the first year of life, 65 per cent of babies get infected by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers design mouse with more human-like immune response

Medical scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have bred a first-of-its-kind mouse model that possesses an immune response system more like a human's. The discovery makes way for quicker ...

Immunology created Feb 04, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Immune cell 'survival' gene key to better myeloma treatments

Scientists have identified the gene essential for survival of antibody-producing cells, a finding that could lead to better treatments for diseases where these cells are out of control, such as myeloma and ...

Immunology created Feb 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Early therapy for HIV vital

New insight into the optimal timing of therapy for HIV infection could give patients a better chance of responding to potential cure strategies of the future.

HIV & AIDS created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Recently identified receptor helps trigger first wave of immune response

B cells can generate different 'classes' of antibodies, each of which carries a specific type of protein chain that triggers a specific downstream cascade of immune responses. Immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies, ...

Immunology created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two-step immunotherapy attacks advanced ovarian cancer

Most ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed with late stage disease that is unresponsive to existing therapies. In a new study, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ...

Cancer created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Single, fractional dose of polio vaccine induces priming

(HealthDay)—Priming immune responses are induced in most infants after vaccination with a single dose of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), according to a study published in the Jan. 31 issue of the ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify new target for rheumatoid arthritis

Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery have identified a potential new target for drugs to treat patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a protein known as IRHOM2. The finding could provide an effective ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Jan 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tall and thin not so great for lung disease

Tall, thin women face a greater risk of infection with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), cousins of the organism that causes tuberculosis, according to researchers at National Jewish Health. Women with NTM infections also ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Candidate dengue vaccine shows promise in early-stage trial

A candidate dengue vaccine developed by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been found to be safe and to stimulate a strong immune response in most vaccine recipients, according to results from an early-stage ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find protein that reins in runaway network

Marked for death with molecular tags that act like a homing signal for a cell's protein-destroying machinery, a pivotal enzyme is rescued by another molecule that sweeps the telltale targets off in the nick of time.

Medical research created Jan 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Loneliness, like chronic stress, taxes the immune system

New research links loneliness to a number of dysfunctional immune responses, suggesting that being lonely has the potential to harm overall health.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 19, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Weight loss helps to oust worms

Scientists from The University of Manchester have discovered that weight loss plays an important role in the body's response to fighting off intestinal worms.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover how the flu virus tells time

Scientists have discovered that that the flu virus can essentially tell time, thereby giving scientists the ability to reset the virus' clock and combat it in more effective ways. According to researchers at the Icahn School ...

Medical research created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast