Most people are aware that testing for antibodies in a person's blood can show if someone has had a specific disease, such as COVID-19. Those antibodies provide protection from getting the disease again.
Aug 27, 2020
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To confront the many challenges that infectious diseases pose to mankind head-on, a multi-disciplinary team of bioengineers, materials-scientists and immunologists at Harvard's Wyss Institute has developed a broadly deployable ...
Aug 20, 2020
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad and her colleagues describe a newly understood way by which breast cancer cells sabotage a key player in the body's immune system. That key player provides ...
Jul 15, 2020
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A significant site of damage during COVID-19 infection is the lungs. Understanding how the lungs' immune cells are responding to viral infections could help scientists develop a vaccine.
Jun 11, 2020
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APOSEC is a biologic wound-healing agent developed by thoracic surgeon Hendrik Jan Ankersmit from MedUni Vienna. Together with dermatological basic researcher Michael Mildner, also from MedUni Vienna, he has now also investigated ...
May 15, 2020
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Immune system cells in the blood of breast cancer patients undergo alterations early in the disease course, according to a study published in the journal Clinical & Translational Immunology. The authors believe that this ...
May 13, 2020
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In experiments with mice, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have slowed the growth of transplanted human prostate and pancreatic cancer cells by introducing bone marrow cells with a specific gene ...
Mar 5, 2020
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A modified form of poliovirus, pioneered at Duke Cancer Institute as a therapy for glioblastoma brain tumors, appears in laboratory studies to also have applicability for pediatric brain tumors when used as part of a cancer ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Immune cells found in the mouse kidney at various stages of development are morphologically virtually indistinguishable. It now turns out that these cells are derived from different tissue sources at different stages in the ...
Jan 15, 2020
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Supplementing the body's short chain fatty acids can improve stroke recovery, according to research in mice recently published in JNeurosci. Short chain fatty acid supplementation may be a non-invasive addition to stroke ...
Jan 2, 2020
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