A common strep throat infection can trigger guttate psoriasis by altering the behavior of key immune cells, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet published in eBioMedicine. The findings suggest how an infection ...
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UCLA and Stanford Medicine researchers, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Utah and Columbia University, have engineered a new class of supercharged T cells that are stronger, longer-lasting, and more ...
Mar 19, 2026
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The brain has its own immune system, which detects threats and mounts a defense. A growing body of evidence has shown that in Alzheimer's disease, those immune cells are chronically overactivated, causing inflammation that ...
Apr 25, 2026
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A team from the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute has identified a tick-derived evasin that can bind to two major classes of chemokines, a discovery that is important for the development of therapeutics targeting ...
Feb 27, 2026
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Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects millions of people worldwide. This disease prompts the immune system to mistakenly attack body tissues, particularly joints, leading to inflammation, swelling, ...
The class of anti-inflammatory drugs known as TNF-inhibitors has brought relief to many sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis, but they don't work for up to 4 of every 10 patients.
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A global research collaboration of scientists from McMaster University (Canada), Flinders University (Australia) and Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (Germany) uncovered why a small number of people developed dangerous blood ...
Feb 11, 2026
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New research reveals how Parkinson's spreads from the gut to the brain, with the help of immune cells—offering a new potential therapeutic strategy—in a study in mice led by scientists at the UK Dementia Research Institute ...
Jan 28, 2026
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Some viruses that make us sick are cleared by the immune system within days, while others lurk in our bodies for a lifetime and reemerge later to cause new problems. How and why viral levels in the body change over time—and ...
Mar 25, 2026
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It's widely known that breastfeeding impacts the health of both mother and child, but the underlying biology that leads to these effects has been understudied. In a review article published in Trends in Immunology, researchers ...
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