Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine used a novel genetic sequencing technology to identify the genetic cause of—and a treatment for—a previously unknown severe auto inflammatory syndrome affecting an 18-year-old ...
Aug 4, 2020
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A new study shows how chronic psychological stress leads to painful vessel-clogging episodes—the most common complication of sickle-cell disease (SCD) and a frequent cause of hospitalizations. The findings, made in mice, ...
Jul 30, 2020
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The inflammatory molecule interleukin-17A (IL-17A) triggers immune cells that in turn reduce IL-17A's pro-inflammatory activity, according to a study by National Eye Institute (NEI) researchers. In models of autoimmune diseases ...
Jul 23, 2020
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It's a trajectory followed by many who experience a severe case of COVID-19: They feel poorly for a few days, improve over a day or two and then, a week or 10 days into their infection, have respiratory difficulties, a stroke, ...
Jul 8, 2020
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More than 300 scientists and clinicians from the federal government, industry and academia published a report of their conclusions and recommendations on COVID-19 serology studies online in Immunity. The group gathered for ...
Jun 23, 2020
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Chintan Parekh, MD, of the The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has led a team of investigators that generated a comprehensive roadmap for how T-cells develop in the human thymus. The study will ...
Jun 16, 2020
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Mapping out the lifespan of the immune cells that lose steam in the body's fight against cancer is giving Penn Medicine researchers a better understanding of how future immunotherapies could reinvigorate them to help attack ...
May 27, 2020
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Research into how the SARS-CoV-2 virus induces death is suggesting potential treatments for its most destructive complications.
May 20, 2020
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With a discovery that could rewrite the immunology textbooks, an international group of scientists, including the teams of Bart Lambrecht, Martin Guilliams, Hamida Hammad, and Charlotte Scott (all from the VIB-UGent Center ...
May 8, 2020
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Key cells found in abdominal fat tissue could aid the fight against life-threatening infections including sepsis, research suggests.
Apr 24, 2020
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