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Researchers discover new way concerning immune defence
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Monocytes, a kind of white blood cell, generate cytokines, which are inflammatory messengers required for an adequate immune response. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn have discovered that platelets, also known as thrombocytes, interact with monocy
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Study suggest how myeloid cells contribute to a long-lived HIV reservoir
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to a study, individuals who have been virally suppressed for years on antiretroviral medication may contain HIV in a subpopulation of white blood cells known as myeloid cells. Researchers demonstrated in the study that HIV can be reactivated and infect new cells in certain myeloid
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Researchers discover new method for treating skin infections and wounds
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Calgary [Canada], August 14 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Calgary have discovered a potentially effective new method for treating bacterial skin infections.
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New research may explain severe virus attacks on lungs
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], December 31 (ANI): In some cases, immune cells in the lungs can contribute to worsening a virus attack. In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden describe how different kinds of immune cells, called macrophages, develop in the lungs and which of them
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Immune system discovery paves way to lengthen organ transplant survival: S
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 9 (ANI): While the chronic rejection of transplanted organs is the leading cause of transplant failure, a new discovery suggests that the innate immune system can specifically remember foreign cells, which could pave the way to drugs that lengthen long-term surviva
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