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Study shows immune system can hurt as well as help fight cancer
Sep 29, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that some proteins of the immune system can promote tumor growth. Investigators found that instead of fighting tumors, the protein ...
Structures from the human immune system's oldest branch shed light on a range of diseases
Jun 17, 2009 |
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How molecules of the oldest branch of the human immune system have interconnected has remained a mystery. Now, two new structures, both involving a central component of an enzyme important to the complement ...
Genetic finding implicates innate immune system in major cause of blindness
Oct 07, 2008 |
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Scientists have identified one of the genes implicated in age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in developed countries.
Protein from tick saliva studied for potential myasthenia gravis treatment
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Looking for a better treatment for the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis, researchers have found that a protein in tick saliva shows promise in limiting the severity of the disease in an animal model in a study published ...
Piece from childhood virus may save soldiers' lives
Sep 06, 2009 |
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A harmless shard from the shell of a common childhood virus may halt a biological process that kills a significant percentage of battlefield casualties, heart attack victims and oxygen-deprived newborns, according to research ...
Hyperactive immune resistance brings blindness in old age
Jul 24, 2008 |
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Age-dependent macular degeneration (AMD) is the commonest cause of blindness in the western industrialised nations. Hereditary changes in the regulation of the immune system influence the risk of contracting AMD. Opthalmologists ...
New discovery about the formation of new brain cells
Nov 23, 2009 |
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The generation of new nerve cells in the brain is regulated by a peptide known as C3a, which directly affects the stem cells' maturation into nerve cells and is also important for the migration of new nerve cells through ...
Immune system may target some brain synapses
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Dec 13, 2007 |
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A baby's brain has a lot of work to do, growing more neurons and connections. Later, a growing child's brain begins to pare down these connections until it develops into the streamlined brain of an adult.
ESA sets MetOp-A launch date
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2006 |
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The European Space Agency says the launch of MetOp-A, the first in a new European series of three meteorological satellites, will be Oct. 7.
Meningitis bacteria dress up as human cells to evade our immune system
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The way in which bacteria that cause bacterial meningitis mimic human cells to evade the body's innate immune system has been revealed by researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial ...
Scientists shed new light on how antibodies fight HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 06, 2007 |
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By furthering scientists’ understanding of the molecular mechanisms that separate the minority of successful HIV antibodies from the majority of ineffective antibodies, the work may have implications for future attempts to ...
Immune compound blocks virus' ability to hijack antibodies
Dec 12, 2007 |
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that a controversial phenomenon known as antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) of infection is suppressed by C1q, a blood-borne immune system ...
Officials Review Readiness for Endeavour Shuttle Mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 28, 2008 |
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NASA's senior officials and Space Shuttle Program managers are meeting today for the Flight Readiness Review, a standard process leading up to any shuttle mission. Known simply by its acronym FRR, the two-day ...
Flu deaths could be reduced thanks to cancer research
Nov 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cells involved in the body’s immune response to cancer are also implicated in influenza infection and could be targeted in new flu vaccination strategies, scientists at Oxford University have ...
Gene variant increases risk of blindness
Jul 18, 2007 |
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Researchers have found a gene variant that can more than double the risk of developing the degenerative eye disease, age-related macular degeneration.
