B-cells protect your body from infection. But sometimes, they misfire and cause debilitating disease. Now, University of Connecticut researchers have shown that a single protein might be able to defuse B-cells gone bad. Their ...
Aug 14, 2024
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The discovery of a new regulator affecting immune cells could lead to new treatments to reduce inflammation in diseases including arthritis and severe COVID 19.
Aug 14, 2024
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A discovery by a three-member Albert Einstein College of Medicine research team may boost the effectiveness of stem-cell transplants, commonly used for patients with cancer, blood disorders, or autoimmune diseases caused ...
Aug 8, 2024
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An activity pattern in certain genes responsible for building proteins known as spleen tyrosine kinases can predict which melanoma patients are likely to have severe side effects from immunotherapy designed to treat the most ...
Aug 8, 2024
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Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, some children fought off COVID with few, if any, symptoms, only to go into organ failure a few weeks later.
Aug 7, 2024
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The nose is a major gateway to our bodies—for the air we breathe, the aromas we smell and the microbes that make us sick. On its way in, the air passes through nasal conchae, or turbinates—the long, narrow, curled shelves ...
Jul 31, 2024
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Autoimmune liver diseases (ALDs), including autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), are complex conditions involving the liver's immune-mediated damage. These ...
Jul 15, 2024
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A study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland found distinct signatures in CD8+ T cells in blood samples from children with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes and in autoantibody-positive children who later developed ...
Jul 11, 2024
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Researchers led by Yasuhiro Murakawa at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) and Kyoto University in Japan and IFOM ETS in Italy have discovered several rare types of helper T cells that are associated ...
Jul 4, 2024
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A research team including Professor Yoontae Lee and Jiho Park, a Ph.D. candidate, from the Department of Life Sciences at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has discovered that a particular protein promotes ...
Jul 2, 2024
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