News tagged with b cell receptor

New study shows how B cells may generate antibodies after vaccination

Steve Reiner, MD, professor of Medicine, and Burton Barnett, a doctoral student in the Reiner lab at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have shown how immune cells, called B ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

B cell receptor inhibitor causes chronic lymphocytic leukemia remission

A new, targeted approach to treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia has produced durable remissions in a Phase I/II clinical trial for patients with relapsed or resistant disease, investigators report at the 53rd Annual Meeting ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New HIV vaccine approach targets desirable immune cells

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have demonstrated an approach to HIV vaccine design that uses an altered form of HIV's outer coating or envelope ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers on the trail of a treatment for cancer of the immune system

Infection with Epstein Barr means that the B cells, which are the primary memory cells of the immune system, are hi-jacked.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Lampreys give clues to evolution of immune system

Biologists have discovered that primitive, predatory lampreys have structures within their gills that play the same role as the thymus, the organ where immune cells called T cells develop in mammals, birds and fish.

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find new structural motif in key enzymes is essential to prevent autoimmune disease

Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation have found a specific mutation that leads to the development of severe autoimmune kidney disease in mice. The research ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0