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Obesity makes ovarian cancer deadlier
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
In cancer patients with a BMI higher than 30 (the range for obesity determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the researchers found a particular pattern in the type of immune cells surrounding cancerous tumours.
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How to deal with metastatic cancer
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The body's lymph nodes serve as one of its first lines of defence against sickness. From these biological police stations, immune cells are sent out to repel invaders. However, the majority of metastatic tumours also start in lymph nodes.
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Study discovers immune cells patrolling human eye
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The finding, which was reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, completely rewrites our understanding of the immune cell landscape in a healthy human eye's cornea.
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Study explains why infants contract so many common respiratory ailments
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Researchers from Columbia University have discovered a unique cluster of immune cells that are only seen in newborns that enable them to deal with novel pathogens and explain why infants contract so many common respiratory ailments.
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Scientific breakthrough uses mRNA technology to create a highly effective
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
In preclinical models, Trans-Tasman research collaborators from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington's Ferrier Research Institute and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research in New Zealand and the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Australia developed an mR
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Study reveals how melanoma evade immune system, helps in treatments
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Sanford Burnham Prebys' recent study has contributed to the understanding of how melanoma circumvents the immune system and may help in the development of future treatments for the condition. A protein that is known to be active in immune cells is also active inside melanoma cells, the study
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Monitoring T cells might allow prevention of type 1 diabetes: Research
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Scripps Scientists have discovered that analysing a certain type of immune cell in the blood can help identify people at risk of developing type 1 diabetes, a fatal autoimmune illness. If the new approach is verified in future research, it might be used to select potential people for treatme
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Research shows babies’ immunological weak spot, strength
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
A new study conducted by Columbia University researchers explains why babies catch so many common respiratory illnesses and reveals a specialised cluster of immune cells present only in babies that help them cope with new pathogens.
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Study sheds light on treatments to prevent cancer, infectious diseases
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Researchers have figured out how one particular sort of immune cell, which defends the body against disease and infection, originates in the body. Additionally, a recent study suggests that the discovery may aid in the creation of other preventative medicines.
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Researchers shed light on how genes make people prone to allergies
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The scientific understanding of why some people are more susceptible to allergies than others is being strengthened by new studies
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'Ageing' immune cell levels may predict how well we respond to vaccines: R
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Cambridge scientists have discovered a blood pattern that could help predict how well an individual will respond to immunisations. The study, which was published in Nature Communications, could explain why, even within susceptible patient groups, some people respond better to immunisations t
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Researchers find how HIV can lie dormant in brain
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) inserts a copy of its DNA into human immune cells as a component of its life cycle. HIV latency is the term used to describe the long-lasting inert, latent condition that some of these newly infected immune cells might enter.
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