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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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Israeli study finds correlation between behavioral stress, vaccine effecti
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered a significant link between behavioral stress and the effectiveness of vaccines. Acute stress, they found, can both enhance and impair the body’s immune response to vaccination.
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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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Study provides new insights into opposite effects of RNase treatment
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Multiple organ inflammation is a hallmark of systemic autoimmune disorders, which can have disastrous effects on patients. Treatments for these disorders are desperately needed. In some clinical trials, RNase therapies appear promising, but not in all. The causes of this variability have bee
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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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Study finds new approach to treat severe asthma, asthma exacerbation
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Many people are unaware of the potential severity of asthma. Ten American deaths are attributed to asthma each day, along with 439,000 hospital admissions annually and 1.3 million visits to emergency departments.
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Study suggests how body's immune response offer alternative approach to ne
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A group of researchers is looking into natural killer (NK) cells as an alternative treatment for neuropathic pain in the midst of a global opioid epidemic.
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