News tagged with immune reaction

Related topics: immune response , immune cells

Investigators predict, confirm how E. coli bacteria hijack cells' directional mechanism

Working in the emerging field of systems biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers mathematically predicted how bacteria that cause food poisoning hijack a cell's sense of direction and then confirmed those predictions ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vaccines to boost immunity where it counts, not just near shot site

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have created synthetic nanoparticles that target lymph nodes and greatly boost vaccine responses, said lead author Ashley St. John, Ph.D., a researcher at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find stem cell reprogramming technique is safer than previously thought

Stem cells made by reprogramming patients' own cells might one day be used as therapies for a host of diseases, but scientists have feared that dangerous mutations within these cells might be caused by current reprogramming ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Newly discovered role for enzyme in neurodegenerative diseases

Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are partly attributable to brain inflammation. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet now demonstrate in a paper published in Nature that a well-known family of enz ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An advance toward blood transfusions that require no typing

Scientists are reporting an "important step" toward development of a universal blood product that would eliminate the need to "type" blood to match donor and recipient before transfusions. A report on the "immunocamouflage" ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Fastest movie in the world recorded: Scientists develop a method to film nanostructures

When we catch a cold, the immune system steps in to defend us. This is a well-known biological fact, but is difficult to observe directly. Processes at a molecular level are not only miniscule, they are often ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

When it comes to the immune system, we're all more alike than previously thought, study finds

When it comes to the mechanics of the human immune system, we are all more alike than previously thought, according to a new study by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Researchers develop a better way to grow stem cells

Human pluripotent stem cells, which can become any other kind of body cell, hold great potential to treat a wide range of ailments, including Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Toxic trio identified as the basis of celiac disease

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have identified the three protein fragments that make gluten - the main protein in wheat, rye and barley - toxic to people with coeliac disease.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The right response to every pathogen

In the event of an infection, the immune system releases messenger substances. These molecules can either activate immune cells to defeat invading pathogens, or inhibit them to prevent an excessive immune reaction. For this, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Those with allergic asthma face double trouble during flu season, findings suggest

New research from UT Southwestern Medical Center suggests that allergic reactions to pet dander, dust mites and mold may prevent people with allergic asthma from generating a healthy immune response to respiratory viruses ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists break barrier to creating potential therapeutic molecules

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have created a novel technique that for the first time will allow the efficient production of a molecular structure that is common to a vast array of natural molecules. This ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New atherosclerosis vaccine gives promising results

A new study by researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet shows that the immune defence's T cells can attack the "bad" LDL cholesterol and thereby cause an inflammation that leads to atherosclerosis. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Promoting recovery from effects of severe allergic reaction

One of the life-threatening consequences of anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction that affects the function of multiple organ systems, is the widening of blood vessels that leads to a dramatic drop in blood pressure. New ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Only some like it hot: How birds from different populations react to infections

With the help of new radiotelemetry technology, researchers from the University of Princeton and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell have now succeeded, for the first time, in studying fever ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0