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Developing effective treatments and understanding how the mechanism of the immune system have always been challenging for scientists. T cells, which are the frontline warriors in the battle against infections, have been a ...
Feb 12, 2025
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Immune cells called regulatory T cells have long been known for their role in countering inflammation. In the setting of infection, these so-called Tregs restrain the immune system to ensure it doesn't go into overdrive and ...
Jan 28, 2025
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When is food simply nourishing and enjoyable, and when does it provoke an allergic reaction? The answer appears to lie in the balance of microbes that live in our intestine—and a specific protein secreted by intestinal goblet ...
Jan 22, 2025
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in Sweden have determined how children's immune systems react to different kinds of cancer depending on their age. The study, which is published ...
Jan 20, 2025
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Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a new mechanism that controls a specialized group of T-cells, known as regulatory T-cells, and may serve as potential therapeutic targets to treat inflammatory disorders and ...
Oct 3, 2024
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The eye is an immune-privileged tissue because of the need to keep blood vessels away from the central pathway of light and to restrict entry of inflammatory cells that could cause damage. This has prompted questions about ...
Sep 24, 2024
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Salt could help to boost the immune defense against cancer. This is suggested by the research findings of a team led by Prof. Dr. Christina Zielinski, who holds the Chair of Infection Immunology at the Friedrich Schiller ...
Aug 28, 2024
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A new editorial titled "Strategies to disrupt NKG2A:HLA-E interactions for improved anti-cancer immunity" has been published in Oncotarget.
Aug 21, 2024
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The immune system is tightly regulated to ensure that it only responds to actual health threats, instead of attacking our own bodies, which happens in cases of autoimmunity. Now, researchers from Japan report a new protein–protein ...
Aug 21, 2024
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By recruiting the immune system to combat tumor cells, immunotherapy has improved survival rates, offering hope to millions of cancer patients. However, only about one in five people responds favorably to these treatments.
Aug 6, 2024
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