Vaccination
Why antibodies aren't the only defense against Omicron
In the fight against the coronavirus, one key component of the human immune system has hogged the limelight: antibodies.
Dec 17, 2021
0
32
Page 31 - News tagged with b-cells
HIV & AIDS
Study explores barriers to HIV vaccine response
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) discovered that an antibody that binds and neutralizes HIV likely also targets the body's own "self" proteins. This finding could complicate the development of HIV vaccines ...
Sep 20, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
Researchers discover mechanism to overcome drug-resistance in leukemia
In a new study led by Yale Cancer Center, researchers have discovered a novel metabolic gatekeeper mechanism for leukemia. This mechanism depends on a molecule called PON2, which could lead to a new treatment for the disease. ...
Feb 1, 2021
0
64
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers identify new target for creating flavivirus vaccines
The results of a recent study moved University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers one step closer to developing effective vaccinations against flaviviruses, which infect more than 400 million people a year with diseases ...
Oct 2, 2020
0
4
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Novel therapeutic approaches to cure chronic HBV infection
Exciting new data presented today at the International Liver Congress 2013 include results from early in vitro and in vivo studies targeting covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA), which may form the basis of a cure for ...
Apr 25, 2013
0
0
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New study examines COVID vaccine protection for patients with lung conditions
Clinicians and researchers at National Jewish Health have studied COVID vaccine effectiveness in patients with underlying lung conditions such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and interstitial lung ...
Oct 10, 2023
0
2
Medical research
Putting the brakes on immune reactions
When we are exposed to a pathogen, the immune system's B cells swarm to our lymph nodes, spleens, and tonsils. There, those cells mutate in germinal centers—microscopic boot camps that rush the B cells through volleys of ...
Jul 16, 2021
0
10
Oncology & Cancer
Putting 'super' in natural killer cells
Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and deleting a key gene, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have created natural killer cells—a type of immune cell—with measurably stronger ...
Jun 11, 2020
0
107
Oncology & Cancer
Study uncovers how B cells react to skin cancer
A new study that sheds light on how B cells react to skin cancer cells could pave the way for innovative therapy design.
Jun 8, 2023
0
33
Immunology
New understanding of tiny RNA molecules could have far-ranging medical applications
A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has identified a family of tiny RNA molecules that work as powerful regulators of the immune response in mammals. Mice who lack these RNA molecules lose their ...
Jun 30, 2013
0
0
