News tagged with immunogenetics
Antibody production gets confused during long-term spaceflight
The trip to Mars just got a little more difficult now that French researchers have discovered that antibodies used to fight off disease might become seriously compromised during long-term space flight. In a new report published ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 19, 2011 |
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Iron induces death in tumor cells
Rapid growth of cancer cells and their frequent divisions have their price: Cancer cells need considerably more energy than healthy cells. Their metabolism runs at full speed and requires large amounts of micronutrients, ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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UCLA team uncovers mechanism behind organ transplant rejection
UCLA researchers have pinpointed the culprit behind chronic rejection of heart, lung and kidney transplants. Published in the Nov. 23 edition of Science Signaling, their findings suggest new therapeutic approa ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Rheumatologists advance genetic research related to disabling form of arthritis
Work done in part by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has led to the discovery of two new genes that are implicated in ankylosing spondylitis (AS), an inflammatory and ...
Jan 10, 2010 |
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Leprosy susceptibility genes reported
In the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of leprosy and the largest GWAS on an infectious disease, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and 26 institutes in China identified seven genes that increase ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Researchers work to boost effectiveness of the flu vaccine
Vaccines intended to help the body to fight off the flu bug may actually give the bug an edge, researchers say.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Opposites attract -- how genetics influences humans to choose their mates
New light has been thrown on how humans choose their partners, a scientist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today. Professor Maria da Graça Bicalho, head of the Immunogenetics and ...
May 25, 2009 |
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Molecule that suppresses immune response under study in type 1 diabetes
The idea is to teach the immune system of children at high risk for type 1 diabetes not to attack the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Chronic inflammation can help nurture skin cancer, study shows
Inflammation, a frontline defense against infection or disease, can help nurture skin cancer, researchers have found. IDO, an enzyme that works like a firefighter to keep inflammation under control, can be commandeered to ...
Oct 21, 2008 |
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New vaccine approach prevents/reverses diabetes in lab study
[B]Results of study are published in Diabetes, a journal of the American Diabetes Association[/B] Microspheres carrying targeted nucleic acid molecules fabricated in the laboratory have been shown to prevent and even rev ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 28, 2008 |
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Improving the quality of laboratory data with computer modeling
Many areas of research and medicine rely critically upon knowing a person’s individual immune system proteins, as they determine an individual’s ability to fight disease or mistakenly attack their own tissues. However, obtaining ...
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Feb 29, 2008 |
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New strategies work to put cancer on the firing line
Dr. Yukai He wants to put cancer in the bull’s eye.“Cancer really comes from us,” the Medical College of Georgia Cancer Center immunologist says of the scary reality that cancer cells are our own cells gone awry. That means ...
Jan 03, 2008 |
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