Immune Response

  • Researchers Discover Way to Reverse Immune System Aging
    Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a way to reverse the aging process by removing old B lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell in the vertebrate immune system) from old mice, and forcing the production of young, potent cells to ...More
    January 27, 2011
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  • New Anti-HIV Gene Therapy Makes T Cells Resistant to HIV Infection
    An innovative genetic strategy for rendering T-cells resistant to HIV infection without affecting their normal growth and activity is described in a paper published in Human Gene Therapy. A team of researchers from Japan, Korea and the U.S. developed an anti-HIV gene ...More
    January 26, 2011
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  • Unexpected Find Opens Up New Front in Effort to Stop HIV
    HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system, scientists have learned. While the finding helps explain why HIV remains such a formidable foe after three decades of research – more than 30 million people worldwide are ...More
    January 24, 2011
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  • Viral Protein Mimic Keeps Immune System Quiet
    In a new paper published Jan. 21 in the journal Science, a team of researchers led by microbiology and immunology professor Blossom Damania, PhD, has shown for the first time that the Kaposi sarcoma virus has a decoy protein that impedes a key molecule involved in the human ...More
    January 21, 2011
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  • Study Maps Process Used by T Cells to Discriminate Pathogens From the Body's Own Cells
    Researchers have for the first time mapped the complex choreography used by the immune system's T cells to recognize pathogens while avoiding attacks on the body's own cells. The researchers found that T cell receptors – molecules located on the surface of the T cell – ...More
    January 21, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New Findings Show Vitamin D Accelerates Recovery From TB
    New research findings which show that vitamin D can speed up antibiotic treatment of tuberculosis (TB) have been revealed by scientists at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. The study -- which gives fresh insight into how vitamin D may affect the immune ...More
    January 6, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Particle Sciences Develops Wax Nanoparticles that Enhance Immune Response to Antigens
    Particle Sciences Inc. announces it has formulated a series of wax nanoparticles that, when coupled with an antigen, enhanced its immunogenicity, increasing both systemic and the mucosal immune response. The work is described in the journal Vaccine (Dec. 8, 2010) in a paper ...More
    December 22, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Find Link Between Depression and Inflammatory Response
    Vanderbilt University researchers may have found a clue to the blues that can come with the flu – depression may be triggered by the same mechanisms that enable the immune system to respond to infection. In a study in the December issue of Neuropsychopharmacology, Chong-Bin ...More
    December 20, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Medication Could Restore Aging Immune System
    UCSF researchers have identified an existing medication that restores key elements of the immune system that, when out of balance, lead to a steady decline in immunity and health as people age. The team found that extremely low doses of the drug lenalidomide can stimulate ...More
    December 13, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Identify New Step in Activation of White Blood Cells to Fight Infection
    Johns Hopkins scientists have identified a previously unrecognized step in the activation of infection-fighting white blood cells, the main immunity troops in the body's war on bacteria, viruses and foreign proteins. "It's as if we knew many of the generals, colonels and ...More
    December 9, 2010
    Posted in News
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