Small molecules induce trained immunity, opening a new approach to fighting disease
Vaccines provide a front-line defense against dangerous viruses, training adaptive immune cells to identify and fight specific pathogens.
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Vaccines provide a front-line defense against dangerous viruses, training adaptive immune cells to identify and fight specific pathogens.
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Angelman syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the maternally-inherited UBE3A gene and characterized by poor muscle control, limited speech, epilepsy, and intellectual disabilities. Though there isn't ...
Jul 8, 2024
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Many vaccines are only partially effective, have waning efficacy, or do not work well in the very young or the very old. For more than a decade, Ofer Levy, MD, Ph.D., and David Dowling, Ph.D., in the Precision Vaccines Program ...
Jul 3, 2024
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Tumor cells often hijack normal physiological processes to support their growth, exploiting proteins that are in charge of essential cell functions. It is therefore important to block the activity of these proteins only in ...
May 29, 2024
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For the first time, a team co-led by CHU Sainte-Justine researcher and professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal, Alexey Pshezhetsky has succeeded in resolving the unique structure of the HGSNAT enzyme, ...
May 27, 2024
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An international research team, led by Tibor Harkany and Robert Schnell at Karolinska Institutet and MedUni Vienna's Center for Brain Research, set out to find ways of influencing hormone release to reduce stress reactions ...
Apr 23, 2024
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In a new study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have designed a new method for developing immunotherapy drugs using engineered peptides to elicit ...
Apr 19, 2024
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Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson's disease treatments.
Apr 17, 2024
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Relapses in a common form of leukemia may be preventable following new research that has identified how the cancer develops resistance to first line treatments.
Apr 9, 2024
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University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have identified drug candidates that show promise to reverse the ability of HIV to escape detection by the immune system.
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