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Understanding Macrophages: The Key to Optimizing Biotechnologies and Immunotherapy
A recent meta-analysis highlights the importance of understanding macrophage behavior to improve biotechnologies and immunotherapies. Co-led by researchers from Texas A&M University, the study …
Guardian Peptides: The Brain's Secret to Immune Balance
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have discovered guardian peptides produced by the brain that help regulate immune responses, potentially paving the way …
Scientists identify potential new 'soldier' for cancer immunotherapy
The new cells, which the scientists have dubbed killer innate-like T cells, differ in several notable ways from the conventional target of many immunotherapies.
Regulating the regulators of the immune system
Scientists reveal a new layer of complexity with which the immune system finds a balance between controlling pathogens and protecting healthy tissue.
New approach against chronic inflammation: Treating mice with so-called 'nanobodies'
Researchers have succeeded in mitigating chronic inflammation in mice using customized 'mini-antibodies.' These nanobodies enabled them to dissolve molecular complexes in tissue that normally …
Could releasing ‘handbrake’ immune cells help supercharge immunity?
Researchers have found a way to supercharge immune cells that could enable them to clear disease and infections faster
Colon cancer: How mutation of the APC gene disrupts lymphocyte migration
In patients with familial adenomatous polyposis, a genetic disease predisposing to colon cancer, mutations of the APC gene induce the formation of intestinal polyps, …
COVID-19 therapy: Better in combination than alone
There is a steadily growing arsenal of drugs for COVID-19. Researchers have studied the mechanisms of action of antiviral and anti-inflammatory drugs. Their findings …
Immune response to parasitic worms
New research looked at if exposure to pathogens, in particular helminths, can stimulate the immune system and reduce predisposition for inflammatory bowel disease.
How to rejuvenate the immune system of elderly people and reduce their risk of infectious disease
A new study identifies a reason for why older adults are significantly more susceptible to infectious diseases than younger people, a critical societal issue …
New tool reveals how immune cells find their targets
Biological engineers have devised a new experimental tool that allows them to precisely pick out interactions between a particular B or T cell and …
How T cell-derived interleukin-22 promotes antibacterial defense of colonic crypts
Intestinal epithelial cells line the inner wall of the gut, creating a barrier to dangerous bacteria like enteropathogenic E. coli that seek to attach …