Immunology is the scientific discipline that investigates the molecular, cellular, and systemic mechanisms underlying immune recognition, regulation, and effector function in vertebrates and other organisms. It encompasses the study of innate and adaptive immune responses, including antigen processing and presentation, clonal selection, tolerance, immune memory, and the cytokine networks that orchestrate these processes. Immunology also examines the pathophysiology of immune-mediated diseases such as autoimmunity, allergy, immunodeficiencies, and transplant rejection, and underpins the rational design of vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, immunotherapies, and diagnostic assays through quantitative, genetic, and systems-level approaches.
With nanotechnology we can understand, mimic, and modulate our immune system. For her Ph.D. research, Annelies Wauters studied how tiny nanocarriers can be used to control the immune system, and target and activate immune ...
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To grow and spread, cancer cells must evade the immune system. Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT used the power of nanotechnology to discover a new way that cancer can disarm its would-be cellular attackers ...
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Immunotherapy is promising for cancer treatment. The key to improving the therapeutic effect is to drive the patient's own immune system to produce a strong, effective, and enduring tumor-specific immune response. Engineered ...
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More than 2 billion people worldwide are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. However, many who live in resource-limited countries haven't been able to get vaccines, partly because these areas lack temperature-controlled shipping ...
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The researchers' original task was to figure out how certain polymer nanomaterials provided for a low-inflammatory immune response and yet were able to boost antibody production as part of a single dose of vaccine.
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Scientists have developed a "nanobody"—a small fragment of a llama antibody—that is capable of chasing out human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) as it hides away from the immune system. This then enables immune cells to seek out and ...
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