News tagged with immune response

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Positive early results in clinical trial of leukaemia vaccine

Early results of a trial to treat leukaemia with a WT1 DNA vaccine, has shown robust vaccine-specific antibody responses in all vaccinated patients evaluated to date.

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Researchers shed light on the workings of the body's immune response

Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that two proteins which are believed to play a key role in controlling the body's immune response are found in lower levels in T lymphocytes from patients ...

Immunology created Dec 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A drug used to treat HIV might defuse deadly staph infections

A new study by NYU School of Medicine researchers suggests that an existing HIV drug called maraviroc could be a potential therapy for Staphylococcus aureus, a notorious and deadly pathogen linked to hundreds of thousands of hos ...

HIV & AIDS created Dec 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Way to make one-way flu vaccine discovered

A new process to make a one-time, universal influenza vaccine has been discovered by a researcher at Georgia State University's Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection and his partners.

Medications created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sublingual immunotherapy shows promise as treatment for peanut allergy

Peanuts are one of the most common triggers of severe food-induced allergic reactions, which can be fatal, and the prevalence of peanut allergy is increasing. However, there is currently no clinical treatment available for ...

Immunology created Jan 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genetics discovery to help fight 'black fever'

Scientists—including a geneticist at The University of Western Australia—are a step closer to developing a vaccine against a fatally infectious parasite carried in the bite of sandflies.

Genetics created Jan 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New research refutes claim iPSCs are prone to immune response

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Japan have injected induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from mice back into genetically identical mice and report that doing so caused no immune reaction. This contradicts the results ...

Medical research created Jan 10, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

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 ...

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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

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

HIV exploits a human cytokine in semen to promote its own transmission

A new report suggests that the concentration of one human cytokine, interleukin 7 (IL-7), in the semen of HIV-1-infected men may be a key determinant of the efficiency of HIV-1 transmission to an uninfected female partner. ...

HIV & AIDS created Feb 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bringing a new perspective to infectious disease

Studying infectious diseases has long been primarily the domain of biologists. However, as part of the Ragon Institute, MIT engineers and physical scientists are joining immunologists and physicians in the ...

HIV & AIDS created Feb 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanotechnology against pollen allergy

Scientists at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now been able to identify the grass pollen molecule, against which the allergic response of hay fever in children is initiated. In addition, it was shown that ...

Immunology created Feb 11, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers say silencing of retinoblastoma gene regulates differentiation of myeloid cells

Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center have found a potential mechanism by which immune suppressive myeloid-derived suppressor cells can prevent immune response from developing in cancer. This mechanism includes silencing ...

Immunology created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New cancer 'vaccine' shows future promise in treating and preventing metastatic cancers

Preclinical, laboratory studies suggest a novel immunotherapy could potentially work like a vaccine against metastatic cancers, according to scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center. Results from ...

Cancer created Feb 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast