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Immunotherapy treatments are avoided by tumours by forming temporary struc
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 20 (ANI): The findings of a recent study provide a novel theory as to how tumour cells avoid destruction by the immune system.
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Study reveals connection between diabetes, urinary tract infections
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 20 (ANI): Diabetes is associated with lowered immunity and recurring infections. The immune system of people with diabetes has lower levels of the antimicrobial peptide psoriasin, which compromises the urinary bladder's cell barrier, increasing the risk of urinary
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Covid-19 reduces placenta's immune response: Study
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 20 (ANI): According to a study, if a woman catches COVID-19 during her pregnancy, the infection, no matter how slight, affects the placenta's immune response to further infections.
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New drug helps relieve eczema's terrible itch
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Illinois [US], September 19 (ANI): Researchers involved in a new multi-site international phase III study led by Northwestern Medicine found that a new drug was highly effective in reducing the signs and symptoms of moderate-to-severe eczema. This is the first study to treat moderate-to-seve
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Children with primary immunodeficiency may be at higher risk of serious Co
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 19 (ANI): According to a new study, children with specific immunodeficiency illnesses have abnormalities in genes that regulate the body's immune system against viral infections and have a higher death risk owing to COVID-19.
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Study reveals antibiotics might worsen melanoma by depleting the gut micro
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): According to a new study by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in mice with malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, accelerated their metastatic bone growth. This likely happened because the dr
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Researchers find macrophages may be scavenger cells of the immune system
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): Alveoli are microscopic air sacs in our lungs that exchange gases between the air we breathe and our blood. To keep this process running properly, the alveolar epithelial cells create a material called "surfactant," which coats the alveoli like a film. Th
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Researchers develop drug that marks cancer cells for destruction by immune
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): Tumour cells are infamous for their ability to evade the human immune system; they construct physical barriers, disguise themselves, and handcuff the immune system with molecular tricks.
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Find out how human cells become Zika virus factories
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Los Angeles, September 13 (ANI): The Zika virus has a cunning plan. Once a virus has entered the body, it tends to head straight for dendritic cells, which are necessary for an efficient immune response.
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Researchers develop new approach to find antigens that trigger specific im
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 6 (ANI): The surface of a cell, which is covered with tens to hundreds of thousands of molecules that assist immune cells to distinguish friend from foe, can reveal a cell's secrets. Some of those projecting molecules are antigens that cause the immune system to a
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Researchers report encouraging immunotherapy options for relapsed myeloma
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 2 (ANI): Researchers have published results that show encouraging therapeutic options for patients with blood cancer and multiple myeloma after first-line treatment with bispecific antibodies fails. Bispecific antibodies are a type of antibody that can bind to two
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Research finds therapeutic drugs can render cancer cells weaponless
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Bonn [Germany], August 28 (ANI): The protective scent that tumour cells spray themselves with suppresses the immune system. It seems, however, that a medicine that has already been approved for other uses can render this weapon harmless.
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