Immunology News and Research

Latest Immunology News and Research

Auto-aggressive immune cells cause liver immune pathology in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), often called 'fatty liver hepatitis', can lead to serious liver damage and liver cancer.

24 Mar 2021

Scientists develop new diagnostic procedure for pulmonary aspergillosis

Scientists have developed a pioneering new procedure that will help diagnose a potentially lethal fungal lung disease with greater speed and accuracy, and with less distress to the patient.

23 Mar 2021

Post-COVID-19 blood clots may be caused by lingering immune response in blood vessels

Serious complications due to blood clots, such as heart attacks and strokes, that are experienced by some COVID-19 survivors may be caused by a lingering immune response in the blood vessels after recovery, suggests a study published today in eLife.

23 Mar 2021

Study reveals a genetic variant linked to COVID-19 severity in young men

A study of young men with COVID-19 has revealed a genetic variant linked to disease severity.

23 Mar 2021

Pfizer coronavirus vaccine found to be moderately less effective against South African variant

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have found that the Pfizer Coronavirus vaccine is moderately less effective against the South African variant, but still neutralizes the British variant and the original SARS-CoV-2 strain.

23 Mar 2021

How could AI be used to predict infection outcomes?

Professor Frankel speaks to News-Medical about his latest research that investigated whether AI could be used to predict infection outcomes.

23 Mar 2021

The hype has faded, but don’t count out convalescent plasma in Covid battle

Six months after it was controversially hailed by Trump administration officials as a "breakthrough" therapy to fight the worst effects of Covid-19, convalescent plasma appears to be on the ropes.

22 Mar 2021

New study to identify prenatal and early childhood markers of high risk for food allergy and eczema

A study to identify prenatal and early childhood markers of high risk for food allergy and atopic dermatitis, or eczema, as well as biological pathways that lead to these conditions, has begun.

22 Mar 2021

Researchers describe a new approach to treating Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease is the second most common, age-related, neurodegenerative disease: In Germany alone, about 300,000 people are affected and experience sometimes major limitations to their quality of life.

20 Mar 2021

How effective has rapid COVID-19 vaccination been in Israel?

Despite high vaccination rates, analysis shows a definite positive impact, but patience is needed to see the real-world impacts in Israel, a pattern that may hold true in other countries also.

19 Mar 2021

Study reveals biomarkers for the prognosis of gastric adenocarcinoma

Low plasma levels of protein TGFB1 and polymorphisms in gene TGFB1 act as biomarkers for the prognosis of gastric adenocarcinoma, according to a study led by the University Complutense of Madrid.

18 Mar 2021

Virtual reality experiences can be used to train professionals in organ donation and transplants

The Donation and Transplantation Institute and Immersium Studio, a UOC spin-off, have developed virtual reality experiences that can be used to train health professionals in the area of organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

18 Mar 2021

Antidiabetic drug could help reduce chronic inflammation in people living with HIV

Metformin, a drug used to treat type-2 diabetes, could help reduce chronic inflammation in people living with HIV (PLWH) who are being treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre.

18 Mar 2021

Novel cancer-fighting gene therapy enters phase I clinical trial

Researchers from the MDC and Charité have developed a new gene therapy based around a special T-cell receptor that helps the immune system effectively recognize and fight cancer cells.

18 Mar 2021

Microbiota modulation and re-establishment of eubiosis could help curb COVID-19 complications

In the paper published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, the researchers noted that since both the respiratory tract and the gastrointestinal mucosa are affected in COVID-19, it is possible that adjunctive therapies that modulate the gut-lung axis.

18 Mar 2021

Study characterizes shifting neoantigen burden between primary and metastatic tumors within HNSCC

Oncotarget published "Genomic and neoantigen evolution from primary tumor to first metastases in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma" which reported that prior work has characterized changes in the mutation burden between primary and recurrent tumors; however, little work has characterized the changes in neoantigen evolution.

18 Mar 2021

Engineered mouse Intestine Chip platform can help study host-microbiome interactions

Trillions of commensal microbes live on the mucosal and epidermal surfaces of the body and it is firmly established that this microbiome affects its host's tolerance and sensitivity of the host to a variety of pathogens.

16 Mar 2021

HPSE protein found to be a key regulator of cells’ innate defense mechanisms

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have discovered that heparanase, HPSE, a poorly understood protein, is a key regulator of cells' innate defense mechanisms.

15 Mar 2021

Less-educated, unmarried patients less likely to undergo a transplant for mantle cell lymphoma

Mantle cell lymphoma is a malignant disease in which intensive treatment can prolong life. In a new study, scientists from Uppsala University and other Swedish universities show that people with mantle cell lymphoma who were unmarried, and those who had low educational attainment, were less often treated with a stem-cell transplantation, which may result in poorer survival.

13 Mar 2021

New vaccination method aims at comprehensive protection against all known influenza mutations

One shot, protected forever: This would be a dream come true regarding influenza vaccinations. So far, vaccination against influenza did not provide a lasting protection.

13 Mar 2021

Immunology News and Research

Latest Immunology News and Research

Auto-aggressive immune cells cause liver immune pathology in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Scientists develop new diagnostic procedure for pulmonary aspergillosis

Post-COVID-19 blood clots may be caused by lingering immune response in blood vessels

Study reveals a genetic variant linked to COVID-19 severity in young men

Pfizer coronavirus vaccine found to be moderately less effective against South African variant

How could AI be used to predict infection outcomes?

The hype has faded, but don’t count out convalescent plasma in Covid battle

New study to identify prenatal and early childhood markers of high risk for food allergy and eczema

Researchers describe a new approach to treating Parkinson's disease

How effective has rapid COVID-19 vaccination been in Israel?

Study reveals biomarkers for the prognosis of gastric adenocarcinoma

Virtual reality experiences can be used to train professionals in organ donation and transplants

Antidiabetic drug could help reduce chronic inflammation in people living with HIV

Novel cancer-fighting gene therapy enters phase I clinical trial

Microbiota modulation and re-establishment of eubiosis could help curb COVID-19 complications

Study characterizes shifting neoantigen burden between primary and metastatic tumors within HNSCC

Engineered mouse Intestine Chip platform can help study host-microbiome interactions

HPSE protein found to be a key regulator of cells’ innate defense mechanisms

Less-educated, unmarried patients less likely to undergo a transplant for mantle cell lymphoma

New vaccination method aims at comprehensive protection against all known influenza mutations

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