Genetics
COVID-19 case severity: How genetic differences leave immune cells at a disadvantage
New research shows how genetic variations linked to severe cases of COVID-19 affect our immune cells.
Nov 19, 2021
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Immunology
New tool demonstrates differences in human immune systems
Immune system function varies significantly between individuals, and up to now there has been no effective means of measuring and describing these differences. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown that white ...
Jul 12, 2017
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Immunology
Dialing back treg cell function boosts the body's cancer-fighting immune activity
By carefully adjusting the function of crucial immune cells, scientists may have developed a completely new type of cancer immunotherapy—harnessing the body's immune system to attack tumors. To accomplish this, they had ...
Aug 18, 2013
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Immunology
Study of cytokines could lead to new treatment for people with asthma, food allergies
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology have made an important new discovery about how a particular molecule could improve lung function for people with asthma and food ...
Feb 23, 2022
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientists work to helps soldiers break camouflage
Researchers want to help the Army better camouflage its soldiers and break the enemy's efforts to hide.
Mar 30, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers find epigenetic tie to neuropsychiatric disorders
Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain's prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, ...
Jul 21, 2014
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Neuroscience
Study shows how memory function could be preserved after brain injury
A study examining the effect of the immune receptor known as Toll-like Receptor 4, or TLR4, on how memory functions in both the normal and injured brain has found vastly different cellular pathways contribute to the receptor's ...
May 12, 2020
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Neuroscience
New research correlates inflammation in the brain and gut to negative emotional state during opioid withdrawal
Opioid dependence has become a national crisis with serious impact on economic and social welfare, and numerous casualties. A big goal of ongoing research in combating opioid use disorder is understanding drug withdrawal. ...
Aug 29, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Neutralizing a tumor's acidic environment improves activity of immune-targeting cancer therapies
Cancer cells have the ability to grow in an acidic tumor environment that is detrimental to other cells, including immune cells. In a Cancer Research cover article published this week, Moffitt Cancer Center reported that ...
Mar 17, 2016
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Neuroscience
Multiple review articles highlight the role of the hypothalamus in human existence
The journal Science has published a series of review articles regarding the outsized role that the hypothalamus plays in human behavior—regulating hunger pangs, sleep cycles and social interactions, the almond-sized brain ...
