Immunology
Vaccine suppresses peanut allergies in mice: study
A vaccine may successfully turn off peanut allergy in mice, a new study shows.
Apr 11, 2018
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News tagged with immune reaction
Oncology & Cancer
New immunotherapy approach boosts body's ability to destroy cancer cells
Few cancer treatments are generating more excitement these days than immunotherapy—drugs based on the principle that the immune system can be harnessed to detect and kill cancer cells, much in the same way that it goes ...
Jan 12, 2018
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Immunology
How cytoplasmic DNA triggers inflammation in human cells
A team led by LMU's Veit Hornung has elucidated the mechanism by which human cells induce inflammation upon detection of cytoplasmic DNA. Notably, the signal network involved differs from that used in the same context in ...
Oct 17, 2017
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Immunology
Fighting allergies by silencing immune cells
University of Queensland researchers are one step closer to developing new medicines for treating inflammatory diseases, including allergies such as rhinitis, itchy hives, asthma, eczema and dermatitis.
Sep 4, 2017
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Immunology
Unearthing immune responses to common drugs
Australian researchers are a step closer to understanding immune sensitivities to well-known, and commonly prescribed, medications.
Feb 6, 2017
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Immunology
New clue to how mosquitoes fend off malaria
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health has found another part of the process that allows mosquitoes to keep from getting malaria even as they carry the parasite responsible for the disease ...
Immunology
New approach tests the strength of immunity
The immune system orchestrates large and small scale attacks on innumerous targets: viruses, bacteria, cancer, but it also misfires causing allergy or autoimmune reactions. Compounding the problem, not every immune reaction ...
Oct 27, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer can be combated with reprogrammed macrophage cells
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have generated antibodies that reprogramme a type of macrophage cell in the tumour, making the immune system better able to recognise and kill tumour cells. The study, which is published ...
May 20, 2016
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Immunology
Researchers make progress on identifying people who will experience adverse responses to vaccinations
(MedicalXpress)—A team of researchers working in the U.K. has fingered a pattern in gene-expression immune cells that could help doctors predict which people are likely to have adverse responses to vaccinations. In their ...
Immunology
'Self-sabotage' prevents immune protection against malaria
Australian scientists have for the first time revealed how malaria parasites cause an inflammatory reaction that sabotages our body's ability to protect itself against the disease.
Dec 24, 2015
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