Medications
Engineering antibodies for diagnosis and immunotherapy
Professor John Whitelock is improving the smarts of antibodies and sending them into the extracellular area to outwit those clever cancer cells.
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Promising steps towards a treatment for pulmonary fibrosis
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a type of lung disease that results in scarring of the lungs, also known as fibrosis. Over time, the fibrosis gets increasingly worse so that it becomes hard for those with the condition ...
Sep 25, 2019
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Medical research
New approach to tackle Ebola and other deadly infections
Medical Research Council scientists have isolated therapeutic antibodies from healthy volunteers exposed to the Ebola vaccine but not Ebola virus itself, suggesting that protective therapies could be developed from people ...
Apr 3, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New potential approach to treat atopic dermatitis
How does the immune system respond to fungi on our skin? Researchers at the University of Zurich have demonstrated that the same immune cells that protect us against skin fungi also encourage the inflammatory symptoms of ...
Mar 19, 2019
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Immunology
New method enables creation of better therapeutic antibodies
Antibodies are the foot soldiers of our immune system. These specialized, Y-shaped proteins attach to bacteria and viruses, where they either block the pathogen's activity directly, or signal the immune system's cells to ...
Mar 13, 2017
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Medical research
Powerful RNA-based technology could help shape the future of therapeutic antibodies
Using antibodies to treat disease has been one of the great success stories of early 21st-century medicine. Already five of the ten top-selling pharmaceuticals in the United States are antibody products. But antibodies are ...
Mar 2, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Subcutaneous administration of multispecific antibody makes tumor treatment faster and more tolerable
Tumor treatment with multispecific antibodies is significantly more tolerable if administered subcutaneously rather than via the bloodstream, which was the standard procedure until now. This was the result of an animal model ...
Jul 1, 2015
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Medical research
Delivering drugs to the right place
For the 12 million people worldwide who suffer from polycystic kidney disease (PKD), an inherited disorder with no known cure, a new treatment option may be on the horizon.
Jun 25, 2015
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Immunology
Immune 'traffic jam' from viral infection interferes with therapeutic antibodies
Several drugs now used to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases are actually repurposed tools derived from the immune system. One of the ways these "therapeutic antibodies" work is to grab onto malignant or inflammatory cells ...
Feb 12, 2015
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Genetics
Scientists call for antibody 'bar code' system to follow Human Genome Project (Update)
More than 100 researchers from around the world have collaborated to craft a request that could fundamentally alter how the antibodies used in research are identified, a project potentially on the scale of the now-completed ...
Feb 4, 2015
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