Dozens of research teams around the world are working to halt, treat and even prevent Alzheimer's disease, which silently develops in the brain for more than a decade before symptoms appear. Although recent years have brought ...
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Prostate cancer is often resistant to immunotherapy, which harnesses a person's immune system to recognize and destroy tumors. But a new technology that targets RNA in cancer cells gave immunotherapy new life, improving its ...
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Neuroimmunology, the study of interactions between the nervous and immune systems, is a rapidly growing field enabling new approaches for monitoring and treating inflammatory diseases. In a study published in Immunity, scientists ...
Jul 15, 2026
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Why does the immune system become less effective as we age? A new USC study published in BMC Biology offers fresh insights by examining a key immune cell type across tissues: macrophages.
Jul 14, 2026
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Picture this: You're enjoying a summer lunch outdoors, unaware that beneath the table, a hungry mosquito is circling your ankles—until you feel the telltale bite. If that mosquito happens to be carrying a pathogen like West ...
Jul 14, 2026
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Researchers from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Dublin (UCD) have shown for the first time that a food supplement made from yeast helps the body make stronger immune cells that can fight cancer. The research ...
Jul 9, 2026
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A new platform developed by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center quickly finds and isolates rare, tumor-reactive immune cells that are especially good at recognizing and attacking cancer cells, ...
Jul 8, 2026
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Researchers at the University of Sheffield have discovered that a fungus deadly to people with weakened immune systems can disable a critical defense used by neutrophils, the body's front-line, infection-fighting white blood ...
Jul 8, 2026
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A King's College London study, published in Nature Communications, offers insight into how long-term inflammation may contribute to cognitive decline in disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, aging, depression and the lingering ...
Jul 8, 2026
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Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that gut bacteria help regulate the development of the body's immune system by directing the movement of vitamin A through a previously unrecognized cellular network. ...
Jul 8, 2026
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