Humans are protected by two branches of the immune system. Innate immunity provides built-in defense against widespread characteristics of bacteria and viruses, while adaptive immunity memorizes individual pathogens that ...
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A one-letter difference in our DNA determines whether BCG vaccine provides good protection against tuberculosis or not. Researchers at Radboudumc have elucidated how that one-letter difference affects the activation and deactivation ...
Dec 13, 2023
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Each year, tuberculosis (TB) kills more people than any other infectious disease, falling out of the top spot only temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nov 29, 2023
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Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered a tuberculosis (TB) vaccination strategy that could prevent the leading cause of death among people worldwide living with HIV.
Oct 10, 2023
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable and preventable infectious disease. And yet, more than 10 million people fall ill with it every year, and more than 1.5 million people die.
Jul 10, 2023
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BCG is a live bacterial vaccine, of limited effectiveness for tuberculosis, but it's the only one we've got. However, scientists in the TB Immunology group at Trinity College Dublin and St. James's Hospital have provided ...
Jul 6, 2023
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Investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer, working in collaboration with colleagues in Colorado and the Netherlands, have identified a specific type of bladder cancer most likely to resist first-line treatment. Their study, ...
May 24, 2023
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The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine—which prevents tuberculosis—offers multiple beneficial effects, and it's currently a recommended therapy for non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer. In a new study led by investigators ...
May 19, 2023
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A world-leading international trial into the immune boosting benefits of the tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, has found it does not protect health care workers against COVID-19.
Apr 26, 2023
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An on-going, worldwide shortage of bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) means that many patients with a common and serious type of bladder cancer have limited access to this effective standard of care treatment. But for the first ...
Feb 28, 2023
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