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Yale Scientists Uncover How the Immune System Can Alter Our Behavior

Yale University — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 03:18:49 +0000

The mere scent of seafood can severely sicken those allergic to it — and therefore they are more likely to avoid it. Similarly, individuals who...

Newly Discovered Memory in Our Bones: Keeping a Record of Previous Infections to Boost Immunity

TU Dresden — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 14:02:42 +0000

Blood Stem Cells Boost Immunity by Keeping a Record of Previous Infections These findings should have a significant impact on future vaccination strategies and pave...

Biologists Reveal Previously Unrecognized Immune Cell Behavior

Ziba Kashef, Yale University — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 02:41:08 +0000

What makes healthy cells change and become dysfunctional to the point of causing disease? In addition to a disruption in genes that regulate cells, there...

Biologists Close In On Cells That Drive Immune Response To Cancer

Jon Atherton, Yale University — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 01:05:42 +0000

Immunotherapy, using the body’s own immune system to target and destroy cancer cells, is one of the most promising frontiers in cancer research, but many...

Scientists Develop Modular Approach to Engineering Immune Cells

Bara Badwan, Yale University — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 15:33:35 +0000

Yale researchers have developed a new way to efficiently engineer immune cells, an advance that enhances the ability to fend off cancer and other diseases,...

Scientists Reveal How An Immune System Protein Helps Suppress HIV

Ziba Kashef, Yale University — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 02:00:34 +0000

Much of the research on HIV has focused on preventing infection but little is understood about how the body keeps the virus in check post-infection....

Researchers Find New Pathway to Regulate Immune Response

Louisa Kellie, University of Texas — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 15:21:32 +0000

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have found a potential new pathway to regulate immune response and potentially control inflammatory diseases of the...

Researchers Discover How to Stop Cell Death Associated with Multiple Diseases

Ansley Gogol, Case Western Reserve University — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 14:20:01 +0000

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered a way to stop immune cell death associated with multiple diseases, including sepsis, inflammatory...

MIT Scientists Discover New Antibiotic Candidates

Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:19:53 +0000

The human body produces many antimicrobial peptides that help the immune system fend off infection. Scientists hoping to harness these peptides as potential antibiotics have...

New HIV Therapy Boosts Immunity and Reduces Viral Replication

Ziba Kashef, Yale University — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:28:39 +0000

In a study, a new HIV drug reduced viral replication and increased immune cells in individuals with advanced, drug-resistant HIV infection. Used in combination with...

High Immune Function Linked to Stunted Childhood Growth

Jim Barlow, University of Oregon — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:12:26 +0000

An overactive immune system during childhood among young people in Ecuador’s indigenous Shuar population comes with a cost: stunted growth. That was the key finding...

Topical Antibiotic Triggers Resistance to Viral Infections

Ziba Kashef, Yale University — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:27:32 +0000

A Yale-led research team made a startling discovery while investigating the effect of bacteria on viral infections. When they applied a common topical antibiotic to...

New Cell Dysfunction Discovery Sheds Light on HIV

Johnny Holden, University Of Texas — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:01:45 +0000

A team of chemical and biomedical engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with researchers from...

New Immunotherapy Agents Stimulate the Immune System to Attack Tumor Cells

Benjamin Boettner, Wyss Institute Communications — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:40:44 +0000

Unlike cell-based cancer immunotherapies that manipulate immune cells outside of the body and transfer them into patients, the implantable immuno-material approach activates endogenous immune cells...

New Study Shows Absence of ANGPTL4 Protein Reduces Cholesterol and Inflammation

Ziba Kashef, Yale University — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:03:13 +0000

Diet-induced diabetes, obesity, and heart disease are the leading causes of death worldwide. In their search for novel therapies for these related chronic illnesses, Yale...

How Helicobacter Pylori Generates An Immune System Blind Spot

Dr. Rike Zietlow, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:04:17 +0000

The gastric bacterium H. pylori colonizes the stomachs of around half the human population and can lead to the development of gastric cancer. It is...

University Biologists Identify Key Step in Viral Replication

Andrea Kunicky, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:47:00 +0000

Viruses are intracellular parasites that cause disease by infecting the cells in the body and, in a study published today in Nature Microbiology, researchers at...

New Vaccines Eradicate Large Tumors and Tumor Metastases

Benjamin Boettner, Wyss Institute Communications — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:51:47 +0000

As cancer cells continuously mutate their DNA, they also produce proteins that are altered from their normal counterparts by small changes in their peptide sequences....

Biologists Design Synthetic Molecules to Help Boost the Immune System

Jim Shelton, Yale University — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:07:02 +0000

Yale researchers have developed a set of synthetic molecules that may help boost the strength of a key, virus-fighting protein. The protein, RIG-I, is an...

Scientists Discover Biomarkers That Predict the Risk of Developing Asthma

Gina Kirchweger, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 01:48:44 +0000

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease driven by the interplay of genetics, environmental factors, and a diverse cast of immune cells. In their latest study,...

New Antibody-Based Treatment Targets Colorectal Cancer

Ziba Kashef, Yale University — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:53:55 +0000

A Yale-led research team has developed an antibody that blocks tumors in animal models of colorectal cancer. If the finding is confirmed in clinical trials,...

Newly Discovered Molecular Mechanism May Be Key to Fighting Chronic Infections

Justin Dupuis, McGill University — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:53:43 +0000

How do viruses that cause chronic infections, such as HIV or hepatitis c virus, manage to outsmart their hosts’ immune systems? The answer to that...

A Powerful New Tool for Studying Complex Biological Events

Katherine Fenz, The Rockefeller University — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:30:14 +0000

A new method for monitoring interactions between cells, dubbed LIPSTIC by its creators, is much more than a cosmetic improvement over existing techniques. The breakthrough,...

Scientists Discover How a Gene Mutation Affects T Cell Function and Successfully Fix It

Andrew R. Patterson, Cincinnati Children's Hospital — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:50:03 +0000

Scientists discovered how a gene mutation affects T cell function to promote immune disorders and then tested a treatment based on the discovery–successfully fixing donated...