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Th17 cells summon an immune system strike against cancer (w/ Video)
A specific type of T helper cell awakens the immune system to the stealthy threat of cancer and triggers an attack of killer T cells custom-made to destroy the tumors, scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Study hints at new approaches to prevent transplant rejection
To prevent the rejection of newly transplanted organs and cells, patients must take medicines that weaken their entire immune systems. Such potentially life-saving treatments can, paradoxically, leave those receiving them ...
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Feb 11, 2009 |
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Scientists discover molecular secrets of 2,000-year-old Chinese herbal remedy
For roughly two thousand years, Chinese herbalists have treated Malaria using a root extract, commonly known as Chang Shan, from a type of hydrangea that grows in Tibet and Nepal. More recent studies suggest that halofuginone, ...
Feb 12, 2012 |
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Scientists crack sparse genome of microbe linked to autoimmunity
Scientists have deciphered the genome of a bacterium implicated as a key player in regulating the immune system of mice. The genomic analysis provides the first glimpse of its unusually sparse genetic blueprint ...
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Learning to tolerate our microbial self
(PhysOrg.com) -- The human gut is filled with 100 trillion symbiotic bacteria—ten times more microbial cells than our own cells—representing close to one thousand different species. "And yet, if ...
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Scientists develop compound that effectively halts progression of multiple sclerosis
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have developed the first of a new class of highly selective compounds that effectively suppresses the severity of multiple sclerosis in animal models. The ...
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Apr 18, 2011 |
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Scientists discover new drug target for inflammatory bowel disease: cytokine (IL-23)
A new discovery published in the April 2001 issue of Journal of Leukocyte Biology raises hope that new treatments for illnesses like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are on the horizon. That's because they've identi ...
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Mar 31, 2011 |
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New pneumococcal vaccine approach successful in early tests
Pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) accounts for as much as 11 percent of mortality in young children worldwide. While successful vaccines like Prevnar® exist, they are expensive and only work against specific pneumo ...
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Feb 16, 2011 |
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Neighboring immune-system genes: Maintaining independence
As part of the immune response to foreign antigens, naïve T cells mature into different types of helper T cells. TH1 cells and TH17 cells, for example, secrete a subset of signaling factors known as cytokines ...
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Jan 31, 2011 |
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New discovery could lead to vaccines for plague and bacterial pneumonias
There is an ongoing battle in the "war on terror" that remains mostly unseen to the public -- a race between scientists working to develop a vaccine to protect against plague and the terrorists who seek to use plague as a ...
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Jan 25, 2011 |
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Genetic link found between spinal arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease
Researchers at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute in Brisbane, Australia, have found that a form of spinal arthritis is genetically linked to Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The study will be published on December ...
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Two-sided immune cell could be harnessed to shrink tumors, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- A recently identified immune cell that directs other cells to fight infection plays a critical role in regulating the immune system in both health and disease. Researchers from the University ...
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Oct 28, 2010 |
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