News tagged with immune system response
Novel vaccine approach offers hope in fight against HIV
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May 17, 2009 |
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A research team may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective HIV vaccine, by using an approach that bypasses the usual path followed by vaccine developers. By using ...
Researchers report oral delivery system for RNAi therapeutics
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) report today on a novel approach to the delivery of small bits of genetic material in order to silence genes using "RNA interference"—and in the process, ...
Vaccine against CMV shows promise in clinical trial
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 18, 2009 |
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A new vaccine has the potential to be the first to prevent maternal and congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) study published in the March 19 edition of the New En ...
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Elderly immune system needs a boost
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Elderly cancer patients need a combination of treatments tailor-made to their specific needs to successfully combat the disease. The challenge is to boost their immune response to cancer vaccines, because like the rest of ...
The right messenger for a healthy immune response
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Molecular Immunology group at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany have now shown that Beta-Interferon also plays a crucial role during an immune response: without ...
Boosting Newborns' Immune Responses
Jun 13, 2009 |
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Newborn babies have immature immune systems, making them highly vulnerable to severe infections and unable to mount an effective immune response to most vaccines, thereby frustrating efforts to protect them. ...
'Natural killer' cells keep immune system in balance
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Natural killer, or NK cells, are part of our innate immune system. A healthy body produces them to respond early during infection. They are activated and they kill cells infected with a given virus.
Cancer cells are protected by our own immune system
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- During the very first few days of development of a cancer, our immune system recognizes cancer cells not as abnormal cells requiring eradication but as cells of the body that need to be protected. This result ...
Type 1 diabetes linked to immune response to wheat
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa have discovered what may be an important clue to the cause of type 1 diabetes. Dr. Fraser Scott and his team tested 42 people with type 1 diabetes ...
Fish fend off invading germs with an initial response similar to the one found in people
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Since the human response to infection is highly complex, research to understand how people fight infection is facilitated by studying how similar processes occur in simpler organisms. Zebrafish are becoming an important model ...
New culprit for viral infections among elderly -- an overactive immune response
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that exaggerated responses of the immune system explain why the elderly succumb to viral infections more readily than younger people. Published in the November ...
New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response to HIV and Prostate Cancer
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Yale University have developed synthetic molecules capable of enhancing the body’s immune response to HIV and HIV-infected cells, as well as to prostate cancer cells. Their ...
Stem cells which 'fool immune system' may provide vaccination for cancer
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Scientists from the United States and China have revealed the potential for human stem cells to provide a vaccination against colon cancer, reports a study published in Stem Cells.
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