News tagged with interferon production
A new mechanism regulates type I interferon production in white blood cells
Jan 12, 2009 |
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A study from a team of researchers led by Dr. Andrew P. Makrigiannis, Director of the Molecular Immunology Research Unit at the IRCM, has identified a new mechanism regulating interferon production. This discovery, co-authored ...
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Genetic breakthrough supercharges immunity to flu and other viruses
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Researchers at McGill University have discovered a way to boost an organism’s natural anti-virus defences, effectively making its cells immune to influenza and other viruses.
Papillomavirus silences innate immune response
Dec 03, 2009 |
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In the 1980s, Harald zur Hausen and his co-workers discovered that specific types of human papillomavirus (HPV) cause cervical cancer. Scientists soon found out how these pathogens cause cells to degenerate. ...
Researchers prolong the half-life of biopharmaceutical proteins
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Many biopharmaceuticals comprise small proteins that are quickly eliminated from the body. Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany) combine such small proteins with a kind of molecular ...
Interferon could be a key to preventing or treating multiple sclerosis
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) results when the body's own defense system attacks nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. Now scientists led by John Russell, Ph.D., at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have ...
Scientists shine new light on inflammatory diseases
Mar 16, 2008 |
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Investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery have identified a new mechanism involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. The mechanism may also shed some light on why gene therapy ...
Research team sheds light on immune system suppression
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Oct 17, 2008 |
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The work was reported in the October 16 issue of the journal Cell Host & Microbe. The study described the suppression of this immune response in mice infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, pointing to potential new av ...
Study shows link between influenza virus and fever
Nov 16, 2009 |
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One feature of the "new influenza" is a sudden rise in temperature. Up to now it was not exactly understood how this reaction occurs. Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have ...
New therapeutic target identified for rheumatoid arthritis
Nov 05, 2008 |
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Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery have identified a potential new therapeutic target that could be used to treat inflammatory disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Mechanisms involved with tumor relapse identified
Mar 13, 2007 |
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Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Massey Cancer Center studying the interaction between the immune system and cancer cells have identified interferon gamma as one of the signaling proteins involved with tumor ...
Mystery solved: Scientists now know how smallpox kills
Dec 22, 2009 |
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A team of researchers working in a high containment laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA, have solved a fundamental mystery about smallpox that has puzzled scientists long after the ...
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