Immune System

  • How to Rescue the Immune System
    In a study published in Nature Medicine, Loyola researchers report on a promising new technique that potentially could turn immune system killer T cells into more effective weapons against infections and possibly cancer. The technique involves delivering DNA into the immune ...More
    February 27, 2012
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  • Research Discovers That Potentially Deadly Fungus Senses Body's Defenses to Evade Them
    Glen Palmer, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology, immunology and parasitology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, was part of an international research team led by Luigina Romani, MD, at the University of Perugia, that discovered opportunistic fungi like Candida ...More
    February 22, 2012
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  • When the Body Clock Runs Down, the Immune System Takes Time Off
    The circadian clock is a finely tuned genetic mechanism that regulates our sleep cycle and key metabolic changes during the 24-hour cycle. It also may help determine whether we get sick or not, according to a new Yale School of Medicine study published online Feb 16 in the ...More
    February 16, 2012
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  • Stress in Cells Activates Hepatitis Viruses
    People who have received a donor organ need lifelong immunosuppressant drugs to keep their immune system from attacking the foreign tissue. However, with a suppressed immune system, many infectious agents turn into a threat. Infections such as with human cytomegalovirus and ...More
    February 13, 2012
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  • Secrets of Immune Response Illuminated in New Study
    When disease-causing invaders like bacteria infect a human host, cells of various types swing into action, coordinating their activities to address the threat. In new research appearing in this month’s issue of the journal Nature Immunology, Roy Curtiss, director of the ...More
    February 9, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Why Bad Immunity Genes Survive
    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
    February 7, 2012
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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
    January 20, 2012
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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
    January 12, 2012
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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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  • Women May Be More Susceptible to Infection During Ovulation
    A new research report in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that a woman's ovarian cycle plays an important role in her susceptibility to infection. Specifically, researchers from Spain and Austria found that women are most susceptible to infection, such as Candida ...More
    January 3, 2012
    Posted in News
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