In most of the tissues of the body, specialized immune cells are entrusted with the task of engulfing the billions of dead cells that are generated every day. When these garbage disposals don't do their job, dead cells and ...
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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified a set of compounds that may be used to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) in a new way. Unlike existing MS therapies that suppress the immune system, the compounds ...
Oct 9, 2013
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In autoimmune diseases, the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own structures. A research team from Kiel, Lübeck and Berlin has now succeeded in analyzing certain pathogenic immune cells more precisely using a method ...
Sep 5, 2024
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More than two decades ago, a research team in the lab of David Hafler, a Yale researcher who at the time was at Harvard, discovered a type of T cell in humans that suppresses the immune system; they later found that these ...
Aug 28, 2024
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Research from Radboud university medical center reveals that T cells from the adaptive immune system can manipulate the memory of innate immune cells. Previously, it was believed that the memory of innate immune cells operated ...
Aug 22, 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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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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An international team of scientists including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have identified a rare, mutated version of a protein called TNIP1 that causes a chronic autoimmune disease similar to ...
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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