News tagged with immune disease
A new target for lymphoma therapy
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital Boston (PCMM/IDI) have found a link between a common mutation that can lead to cancer and ...
MRC scientists advance understanding of cell death
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists have made an important advance in understanding the biological processes involved when cells are prompted to die. The work may help scientists to eventually develop new treatments ...
Not just a long-distance relationship: Immune cells in skin fight off infection better than the rest
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Melbourne have discovered the local action of immune cells in the skin, which could improve treatment of viral skin infections.
Topical treatment wipes out herpes with RNAi
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Whether condoms or abstinence, most efforts to prevent sexually transmitted diseases have a common logic: keep the pathogen out of your body altogether. While this approach is certainly reasonable enough, it doesn't help ...
New research could lead to a vaccine for pneumococcus disease
Sep 22, 2008 |
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New research has shown how the immune system detects and destroys the bug, pneumococcus, which could help in the development of a new vaccine against the disease.
