Infection Control Today - Immune Response

This electron microscope image shows yellow particles of a mouse leukemia virus named Friend virus emerging or "budding" out of an infected white blood cell known as a T-cell. By allowing the Friend virus to mutate and evolve in mice, University of Utah researchers produced ...More

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Leprosy Pathogen Evades Critical Vitamin D-Dependent Immune Response

A team of UCLA scientists has found that the pathogen that causes leprosy has a remarkable ability to avoid the human immune system by inhibiting the antimicrobial responses important to our defenses. In one of the first laboratory studies of its kind, researchers ...More

2 weeks ago

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Vaccines to Boost Immunity Where It Counts, Not Just Near Shot Site

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have created synthetic nanoparticles that target lymph nodes and greatly boost vaccine responses, said lead author Ashley St. John, PhD, a researcher at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. The paper was published online in the ...More

3 weeks ago

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Scientists Find New Way to Stimulate the Immune System to Fight Infection

These new data are an essential step toward understanding the operation of these key cells in the immune system, and they could provide a new therapeutic approach to fighting infection. They also suggest that the operation of NK cells must be precisely regulated to ...More

3 weeks ago

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ISU, Professor Receive Patent for Adjuvant That Boosts Immune System

Swapan Ghosh, Indiana State University professor of biology. While conducting research on cancer, Swapan Ghosh and a team of graduate and doctoral students discovered a phytol-derived adjuvant. That adjuvant formula just became U.S. Patent No. 8,088,395. “I’m so excited,” ...More

4 weeks ago

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Regular, Moderate Exercise May Keep Colds Away

Different levels of exercise can actually significantly increase or decrease your chances of catching a respiratory infection, says professor Mike Gleeson from Loughborough University. While regular moderate exercise can reduce the risk of catching cold-like infections, ...More

January 5, 2012

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Researchers Discover the Existence of Neutrophils in the Spleen Without Presence of Infection

For the first time, it has been discovered that neutrophils exist in the spleen without there being an infection. This important finding made by the research group on the Biology of B Cells of IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) in collaboration with researchers from ...More

December 27, 2011

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'Pep Talk' Can Revive Immune Cells Exhausted by Chronic Viral Infection

Chronic infections by viruses such as HIV or hepatitis C eventually take hold because they wear the immune system out, a phenomenon immunologists describe as exhaustion. Yet exhausted immune cells can be revived after the introduction of fresh cells that act like coaches ...More

December 13, 2011

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Intestine is Crucial to the Function of Immune Cells, Research Shows

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found an explanation for how the intestinal tract influences a key component of the immune system to prevent infection, offering a potential clue to the cause of autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple ...More

December 12, 2011

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Nanosized Metallic Particles on Implants Fools Immune System, Reduces Rejection Risk

Coating the surface of an implant such as a new hip or pacemaker with nanosized metallic particles reduces the risk of rejection, and researchers at the University of Gothenburg can now explain why: they fool the innate immune system. The results are presented in the ...More

November 29, 2011

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