Owl monkey cytomegalovirus produces a decoy molecule A43 to evade detection and destruction by immune cells in their hosts, according to a study published April 4 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Ana Angulo of ...
Apr 4, 2019
0
14
After 10 years in remission, Derek Ruff's cancer returned, this time as stage IV colon cancer. Despite aggressive rounds of chemotherapy, palliative radiotherapy and immunotherapy, his disease progressed. In February 2019, ...
Apr 1, 2019
0
51
In animal models of a totally crushed peripheral nerve, the damaged axons are broken down, allowing healthy ones to regrow. But humans rarely suffer complete axonal damage. Instead, axons tend to be partially damaged, causing ...
Jan 31, 2019
1
65
Natural killer cells (NK cells), play an important role in the body's defences against cancer and infections. Now, in a joint project, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, the University of Oxford, and Karolinska Institutet ...
Dec 14, 2018
0
4
According to new research from The Wistar Institute, the S100A14 protein is expressed at higher levels in people who inject drugs and remain uninfected despite many years of high-risk, needle sharing behavior in areas with ...
Nov 13, 2018
0
2
Scientists have made a major discovery that shines a new, explanatory light on the link between obesity and cancer. Their research confirms why the body's immune surveillance systems—led by cancer-fighting Natural Killer ...
Nov 12, 2018
1
150
Cancer cells have evolved multiple escape strategies to circumvent the body's immune defenses, such as the attack by natural killer (NK) cells that normally kill abnormal cells by releasing cytotoxic products. While studying ...
Oct 24, 2018
0
6
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first cell-based gene therapies for cancer in 2017, advanced malignancies once seen as terminal suddenly looked treatable, perhaps even curable.
Oct 16, 2018
0
2
At least 250 million people are infected with malaria every year, and about half a million of those die from the disease. A new study from MIT offers a possible explanation for why some people are more likely to experience ...
Oct 4, 2018
0
26
Neuroblastoma, a disease of immature nerve cells, is the most common solid tumor cancer occurring in children. About 700 new cases are diagnosed in the U.S. each year with approximately half of these children developing high-risk ...
Oct 4, 2018
0
0
