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Pregnancy generates maternal immune-suppressive cells that protect the fetus

A new study published online in the journal Nature suggests it might be possible to develop vaccines to prevent premature birth and other pregnancy complications. If so, such vaccines would be the first intended to stimul ...

Immunology created Sep 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New Otago collaboration brings oral TB vaccine for humans closer

Researchers in New Zealand are inching closer to the development of the first effective oral vaccine to protect against tuberculosis - a disease which still kills more people worldwide than any other bacterial disease.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify possible key to slow progression toward AIDS

One of the big mysteries of AIDS is why some HIV-positive people take more than a decade to progress to full-blown AIDS, if they progress at all.

HIV & AIDS created Sep 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New insights into how certain slow progressers control HIV infection

People with a rare genetic trait who are infected with HIV progress more slowly to AIDS than others. But even within this group, there are wide variations in time to progression. A new study illustrates in detail how the ...

HIV & AIDS created Sep 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cloned receptor paves way for new breast and prostate cancer treatment

Researchers at Uppsala University have cloned a T-cell receptor that binds to an antigen associated with prostate cancer and breast cancer. T cells that have been genetically equipped with this T-cell receptor have the ability ...

Cancer created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find novel predictor for MDS progression risk

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have discovered that changes in the physical characteristics of the effector memory regulatory T cell can predict the progression risk of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) ...

Immunology created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team shows how childhood viral infection leads to increased risk for allergic asthma as adult

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have shown in an animal model that a common childhood virus disables the normal ...

Immunology created Sep 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop technique to decipher the dormant AIDS virus concealed in cells

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have gotten us one step closer to understanding and overcoming one of the least-understood mechanisms of HIV infection—by devising a method to precisely track the life cycle of individual ...

HIV & AIDS created Sep 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Multiple sclerosis is remote controlled

(Medical Xpress)—Autoimmune diseases are triggered by immune cells that attack the body's own tissue. In multiple sclerosis (MS) immune cells succeed in invading nervous tissue and sparking off a destructive inflammation ...

Immunology created Sep 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Earlier treatment for young patients with chronic hepatitis B more effective in clearing virus

Scientists from A*STAR's Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS), together with clinical collaborators from London , discovered for the first time that children and young patients with chronic Hepatitis B Virus infection ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Presence of common infection—cytomegalovirus—helps to explain increased other virus susceptibility in aging adults

(Medical Xpress)—The first experimental proof that long-term infection with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, may impair the aging immune system's response to unrelated viruses – such as West Nile or the flu – ...

Immunology created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Early activation of immune response could lead to better vaccines

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a new "first response" mechanism that the immune system uses to respond to infection. The findings challenge the current understanding ...

Immunology created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Immunodeficient patients with secondary lung disease benefit from combined chemotherapy

A team of researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute defined a new treatment for a potentially fatal lung disease in patients with a primary immunodeficiency known ...

Immunology created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify unforeseen regulation of the anti-bacterial immune response

New research from the laboratory of Dr. Andrea Cooper at the Trudeau Institute, just published in the European Journal of Immunology, holds promise for the improved prevention and treatment of bacterial infect ...

Immunology created Aug 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experimental combo treatment worsens type 1 diabetes

(HealthDay)—A treatment regimen that is effective in preventing diabetes in a mouse model of the disease leads to worsening disease in patients with type 1 diabetes, according to a study published online ...

Diabetes created Aug 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0