Malignant tumors can enhance their ability to survive and spread by suppressing antitumor immune cells in their vicinity, but a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian has uncovered a new ...
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Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic cancers at bay from the lungs. The treatment not only slowed ...
Sep 14, 2021
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The COVID-19 vaccines currently authorized by the Federal Drug Administration have proved to be far more effective than the wildest dreams of public health officials early in the pandemic. But Sidi Bencherif thinks we could ...
Aug 13, 2021
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New research led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and the University of Liverpool may explain why many cancer patients do not respond to anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapies—also called checkpoint inhibitors.
Jun 24, 2021
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Antibodies aren't the only immune cells needed to fight off COVID-19—T cells are equally important and can step up to do the job when antibodies are depleted, suggests a new Penn Medicine study of blood cancer patients ...
May 27, 2021
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A single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine triggers an immune response in around 70% of patients with myeloma—suggesting that it does provide protection against the virus.
Apr 20, 2021
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a self-assembling nanomaterial that can help limit damage caused by inflammatory diseases by activating key cells in the immune system. In mouse models of psoriasis, ...
Apr 15, 2021
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In a recent study, most patients with kidney failure who were undergoing hemodialysis developed a substantial antibody response following the vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, but it was significantly ...
Apr 6, 2021
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Radiation therapy appears to increase the expression of genes with mutations that induce an immune response to malignant cells, according to preclinical research by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. ...
Mar 31, 2021
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Tumor vaccines can help the body fight cancer. Mutations in the tumor genome often lead to protein changes that are typical of cancer. A vaccine can alert the patient's immune system to these mutated proteins. For the first ...
Mar 24, 2021
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