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Study finds cancer cells use 'tiny tentacles' to suppress immune system
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Boston (Massachusetts) [US], November 18 (ANI): Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT used the power of nanotechnology to discover a new way that cancer can disarm its would-be cellular attackers by extending out nanoscale tentacles that can reach into an immune cell and pu
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Immune system early responder can combat COVID-19: Study
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 11 (ANI): A simple RNA molecule jumpstarts the immune system's 'first responders' to viral infection and can even eradicate the SARS-CoV-2 virus in mice with chronic cases of COVID-19, a new Yale School of Medicine study found.
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Bone marrow backup needed to tackle respiratory infections: Study
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], November 9 (ANI): Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have found how the immune system triggers an emergency dendritic cell response during infection, with dendritic cells at the site of infection being reinforced by new cells which travel from the bone marrow.
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Study identifies drugs that can prevent disease-causing activity of key im
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 2 (ANI): Macrophages are key cells of the immune system with many important beneficial functions, but can also exacerbate many common diseases.
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Research explores how immune system gets altered by COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], October 31 (ANI): Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich researchers say that COVID-19 reduces the numbers and functional competence of certain types of immune cells in the blood.
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Study finds how COVID-19 alters immune system
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], October 28 (ANI): COVID-19 reduces the numbers and functional competence of certain types of immune cells in the blood, say Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich researchers. This could affect responses to secondary infections.
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WHO panel recommends COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for people with weak im
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland] October 12 (ANI): People with weaker immune systems should receive an additional shot of approved COVID-19 vaccines, an advisory group to the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.
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Study provides new insights into how immune system responds to skin cancer
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 19 (ANI): Skin cancer patients could have a better prognosis if their T cells send messages from five specific genes in their immune response to drugs given to treat the disease suggests the findings of a new research led by the University of Birmingham.
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New insights into fundamental workings of immune system in response to ski
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 16 (ANI): New research led by the University of Birmingham suggests that skin cancer patients could have a better prognosis if their T cells send messages from five specific genes in their immune response to drugs given to treat the disease.
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Biologists identify new targets for cancer vaccines
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 16 (ANI): Over the past decade, scientists have been exploring vaccination as a way to help fight cancer. These experimental cancer vaccines are designed to stimulate the body's own immune system to destroy a tumour, by injecting fragments of cancer proteins found
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Loss of natural HIV control preceded by impaired T cell function
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 12 (ANI): HIV is a master of evading the immune system, using a variety of methods to prevent the body from being able to find and kill it. Researchers recently conducted a study on a small subset of HIV-positive people whose bodies naturally control the virus then
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Study reveals that immune cells cooperate to kill bacteria
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): Like a spider trapping its prey, our immune system cells cooperate to capture and "eat" bacteria, according to a recent study led by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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