Most of the time, the intestinal immune system can recognize friend from foe, tolerating myriad foods while destroying disease-causing invaders. But for approximately 30 million Americans with food allergies—including 4 ...
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Imagine a super-charged immune cell that can launch a focused attack on stubborn solid tumors—a smart fighter that destroys cancer cells for days without tiring. USC biomedical engineers have made this concept a reality, ...
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Atopic dermatitis is an allergy affecting approximately 10% of the Japanese population, with symptoms closely related to social stress. In socially active adults, the disease often becomes chronic.
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One main goal of anti-cancer therapies is to kill tumor cells without affecting the surrounding normal cells. Therefore, many drugs are designed to target tumor-specific antigens, which are molecules only expressed by cancer ...
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There is an urgent need for precision immunotherapy strategies that simultaneously target both tumor cells and immune cells to enhance treatment efficacy. Identifying genes with dual functions in both cancer and immune cells ...
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A new study published in JCI Insight suggests that interleukin-7 (IL-7), a key immune-boosting cytokine, may help critically ill COVID-19 patients by reducing life-threatening secondary infections. Led by Richard S. Hotchkiss, ...
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A research group led by Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan has uncovered a potential mechanism linking maternal inflammation to delayed neurodevelopment in infants. The research suggests the role of CD11c-positive ...
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A new form of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy, a form of personalized cancer immunotherapy, dramatically improved the treatment's effectiveness in patients with metastatic gastrointestinal cancers, according to ...
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Inga Rødahl from the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM) at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) is defending her thesis, titled "Features of innate lymphoid cells in human fetal tissues and adult respiratory infection," ...
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When your social media account starts spewing out nonsensical or threatening status updates, it's safe to assume that it has been hacked and must be shut down.
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