Immunology
Cough virus kills liver cancer cells and hepatitis virus
A virus that causes childhood coughs and colds could help in the fight against primary liver cancer, according to a study.
Nov 16, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
New vaccine type overcomes cancerous tumor defenses
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. and one in Japan has developed a new type of vaccine that helps the immune system destroy cancerous tumors by overcoming their defense system. In their ...
Oncology & Cancer
New immunotherapy for lung cancer shows promise of success
In a groundbreaking development, results from a recent clinical trial to treat lung cancer show that a novel immunotherapy combination is surprisingly effective at controlling the disease's progression. The study, published ...
Apr 5, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Toxoplasma gondii can stop cancer in its tracks as a vaccine
Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a single-celled parasite that is happiest in a cat's intestines, but it can live in any warm blooded animal. Found worldwide, T. gondii affects about one-third of the world's population, 60 ...
Jul 18, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Can a vitamin transform natural killer cells into a cancer therapy? Scientists think the answer is yes
Cancer patients appeared to benefit from natural killer cells obtained from donors in an experimental method of treating cancer that involved an aggressive army of immune system fighters endowed with the ability to home in ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mosquito spit may affect your immune system for days
Mosquito saliva alone—even in the absence of any pathogens—contains hundreds of proteins. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have discovered that the interaction of these proteins with the ...
May 17, 2018
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Immunology
Immune system does not recover despite cured hepatitis C infection
Changes to the immune system remain many years after a hepatitis C infection heals, a new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and Hannover Medical School, Germany, shows. The findings, presented in Nature ...
Jun 11, 2018
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Immunology
Harnessing the 'Natural Killer' within us to fight cancer
Our bodies are constantly and successfully fighting off the development of cells that lead to tumours - but when there is disruption to this process cancer is free to develop.
May 23, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers identify how to prevent cancer metastases
Metastases can develop in the body even years after apparently successful cancer treatment. They originate from cancer cells that migrated from the original tumor to other organs, and which can lie there inactive for a considerable ...
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Stowaway B cells in the lungs bear the blueprint to fight the flu, and possibly other viral infections
Immunologists in Australia have eavesdropped on a stowaway population of B cells that hide in the lungs, their telltale biomarkers indicating they're armed to fight influenza—and their presence yet another sign that the ...
