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I've always found it fascinating how complex approaches to treating diseases – such as fooling the immune system into attacking cells it was supposed to attack in the first place – are still more efficient that even more complex methods, such as developing brand-new class of drugs.
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9 February 2012
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I recently came across a study providing an interesting new view on the increasing incidence of eczema, asthma and allergies in the developed world. In the paper, researchers explained that those born and raised on farms tended to exhibit reduced immune response to harmless factors.
Our body's natural defenses ... |
9 February 2012
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A team of scientists at the University of South Florida says that it managed to link abnormalities in the human immune system with the onset of pervasive developmental disorders such as autism. The data could be useful for developing new types of therapies for these conditions.
Patients suffering from autism spectru... |
5 January 2012
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Neutrophils, cells that are known for their ability to clean infections, can apparently be found in the spleen at all time. Researchers had no idea that this was the case, so the discovery puzzled them. The team behind the work was able to determine that the neutrophils in the spleen in fact play a immunoregulating r... |
27 December 2011
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Until now, scientists were having trouble developing an effective HIV vaccine because they did not know exactly how the immune system, and especially T cells, were responding to the infection. Now, a group of researchers makes considerable progress in revealing this critical aspect of the disease.
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15 October 2011
06:32 GMT |
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A press release from the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced earlier today that the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to researchers Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman.
The 2011 Laureates “have revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discove... |
3 October 2011
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A group of experts at the Michigan State University (MSU) announce the development of a new vaccine against malaria, one that takes an innovative route towards destroying the parasite that produces the disease.
According to the investigators, the vaccine relies on the use of a disabled cold virus, which is augmen... |
26 September 2011
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A group of experts at Children's Hospital Boston announces the discovery of a genetic regulator that plays a tremendous role in helping immune system cells respond to virtually any kind of emergency. While flowing through the bloodstream, immune cells need to be prepared to take on any type of invaders that coul... |
12 September 2011
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Experts with the International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium announce the discovery of 29 new genetic variants that are linked to the development of an extremely severe neurological condition called multiple sclerosis (MS).The new figure doubles the known number... |
11 August 2011
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Since pesticides were made a standard component of agriculture, farmers and scientists alike have been so excited about the victory over pests that they failed to properly analyze the effects that these chemicals were producing on human health. A study recently determined the health costs of pesticides.There is no si... |
5 August 2011
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A new study conducted by researchers in the United States is revealing that people who have a positive outlook on life, and are generally more optimistic than their peers, are at a lower risk of suffering strokes during their life.University of Michigan investigators say that the study was conducted on a nationally r... |
22 July 2011
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Studies conducted over the past few years have demonstrated that rabbits are immune to prion diseases, Experts now believe they know why the animals cannot be harmed by the conditions, and that they will soon be able to synthesize new cures for humans, based on the new data. Prions are infections agents that are com... |
27 June 2011
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A team of experts in the United Kingdom, at the University of Leeds, announces the development of a new vaccine, that they say could be used to treat cancer. The chemical was produced by using a large DNA library, the investigators explain.Details of the research were recently published in the top journal Nature Medi... |
20 June 2011
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Experts at the University of Virginia say that breastfeeding lowers the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a condition in which newborns and small children simply die in their cradles. For a long time, an explanation as to why this happens has been pending. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) managed... |
13 June 2011
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Scientists have studied the effects of staying in outer space for prolonged periods of time, and thus far they managed to derive some pretty worrying conclusions. A new research adds to the growing body of evidence indicating the spending a lot of time in microgravity can harm the human immune system.These connection... |
2 June 2011
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The worrying conclusions of a new investigation carried out on animal models reveal that the immune system may in fact attack adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells from a mouse' own tissues. This finding may have serious implications for regenerative medicine.
This relatively-new field of re... |
14 May 2011
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Scientists were finally able to demonstrate that the way the human immune system responds to the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is dependent on the gender of the patient.In order to prove this hypothesis, experts conducted two new experiments, which showed that, while men had no immune response to t... |
27 April 2011
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The conclusions of a new study appear to suggest that depression has side-effects extending beyond impaired mental health. Researchers recently determined that being depressed can also affect cell health, and especially the health of the human immune system. This makes people more predisposed to developing all sorts ... |
6 April 2011
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In the near future, cat allergies will be all but gone from the general population. Researchers are already reporting positive, encouraging results in preliminary tests, which show that the substance they are working with is harmless when injected to humans. According to a recent paper describing the advancement, the... |
5 April 2011
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Fighting cancer may become a lot simpler if researchers also take into account the microscale environment that develops inside tumor cells. Experts say that analysis of the way the immune system behaves at these locations may easily provide new targets for treatment. In a new investigation, experts focused on breast ... |
4 April 2011
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that taking antibiotics to treat viruses such as the common cold or the flu makes the microorganisms stronger, rather than destroy them. These are very important results, and ones that people need to listen to.Now that self-medication has... |
15 March 2011
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Scientists from the United States announce that they managed to discover one of the main mechanisms through which the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acts on the human immune system, weakening it, and making it incapable of fighting future infections.The team found out that the viral agent was causing a specific s... |
27 January 2011
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HIV is a very tricky virus, and it's very good at playing hide and seek inside the body, but now, its latest hideout has been revealed and new drugs are on their way.For the past three decades, scientists have been struggling to find a way of fighting this deadly virus, who has infected over 30 million people wo... |
24 January 2011
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It appears that the anti-social, anxious and depressed behaviors in people who are sick, have a perfectly good scientific explanation – this emotional chaos is caused by cytokines that have crossed into the brain.Cytokines are signaling molecules released by the immune system as a response to infection and stre... |
21 January 2011
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In a new research, an international team of experts was able to conduct in-depth analysis of the atomic structure of two key transient enzyme complexes in the human complement system. This system, as the name implies, complements the function of the body's natural defense, the immune system.It represents an evol... |
28 December 2010
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Sunlight helps life thrive not just by providing heat and light for plants' photosynthesis, but also by helping the immune system become stronger, and vitamin D produced by the body in response to sunlight is very important for humans' development.A new research carried out by the Massachusetts General Hosp... |
27 December 2010
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Investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently made an important discovery, when they are able to determine the mechanisms involved in producing larger amounts of long-term memory T cells in the immune system.These particular cells play a critical role in underlying our bodies' immun... |
21 December 2010
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A new investigation conducted by researchers in the United States has demonstrated the existence of a back-up plan of sorts for the human immune system, that kicks into gear when the usual processes underlying the body's natural defenses fail. The newly-found system apparently kicks into gear to protect our orga... |
20 December 2010
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Scientists always wondered why humans are more susceptible to certain infectious diseases, than their primate cousins, and now a new study conducted by the University of Chicago, concluded that the explanation lies in the species-specific changes in immune signaling pathways.The researchers carried out the first geno... |
17 December 2010
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Living in a wild, demanding environment, where the resources are limited, could be better for the immune system than living in absolute comfort, concluded a new research, carried out at the University of Bristol.The leader of the study was Professor Mark Viney, who, along with his colleagues, made a comparison betwee... |
6 December 2010
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Studies are beginning to reveal the negative side-effects of chemicals people use on a regular basis, inside products that are supposed to help us take care of our bodies. These substances can be found in food cans, antibacterial soaps, diapers, medical devices, toothpaste and pens, among many others.Recently, it was... |
29 November 2010
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For many years, researchers found it difficult to investigate the function of N-glycans, protein-bound sugar molecules in the human body, on account of the fact that they could not be readily isolate and synthesized. A new approach allows researchers to track their function in real-time.The accomplishment is tremendo... |
27 November 2010
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A group of researchers from the United Kingdom announce a major discovery in the fight against common cold, that could see the disease finally eradicated once and for all. The scientists demonstrated that the pathogen can be attacked and destroyed by the immune system after it has penetrated the cellular nucleus, whi... |
2 November 2010
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On board the space shuttle Discovery which will lift off November 2, the six astronauts will be accompanied by 16 mice, which go to fulfill a historic mission – furnish more data on spaceflight-induced impairment of the human immune system.For the last 25 years, NASA has been trying to find out why spaceflight ... |
30 October 2010
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Vital stages of growth and development in the womb are critical for fetuses, and it would now appear that they also control the chances a newborn will have of being allergies to various substances called allergens. Over the past few decades, the world has experienced a massive surge in allergy cases, which now affect... |
25 October 2010
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Investigators conducting research on unsuspecting lab mice have demonstrated that fetal neurons exposed to elevated concentrations of a normal immune protein tend to lead to abnormal developments in the brain of adult rodents.The study, which was conducted by researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles... |
15 October 2010
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A sixth of the world's population living in underdeveloped countries is infected with parasitic helminthes – worms that survive inside the body and feed on their host, that can cause chronic intestinal illnesses that can lead to long-term disabilities.Biomedical researchers Irah King and Markus Mohrs, fro... |
9 October 2010
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A new type of cell that weakens the immune system and protects the body cells from immune system attack, has been found in mice by a team of researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.This could be a major breakthrough in finding a cure for quiet Lupus, and other autoimmune diseases, according to Lup... |
5 October 2010
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A new research carried out by Esther Schnettler, for her doctorate at Wageningen University, Wageningen UR, suggests that besides antibodies and interferons, humans also might have an immune system that looks very much like that of plants.She worked with Professor Ben Berkhout's group, of the Academic Medical Ce... |
27 September 2010
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Bacteria and other microorganisms are known for their remarkable ability to become immune to nearly everything thrown at them, and now a new study provides us with some hints of how that's possible. Short of being cast into the Sun, in Earth's inner core, or in the deepest corners of space, bacteria can end... |
16 September 2010
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A team of European researchers showed that the materials out of which medical devices and implants are made are biocompatible and should not cause health problems as it had been suggested.And for excluding any kind of danger, there are allergy tests that can easily be made, AlphaGalileo reports.It all started from th... |
14 September 2010
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A team of investigators may have just found a way of preventing the immune system from providing exaggerated reactions in a host of situations. The findings could help save numerous lives.The dysfunctional immune response that the investigators wanted to address is responsible for a host of extremely severe events, s... |
27 August 2010
11:15 GMT |
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Biologists say that the Salmonella enteritidis can infect chicken eggs in multiple ways, facilitating the outbreak of infections in the general population. While it may seem impossible for the microorganisms to penetrate egg shells, there are actually more ways than one in which this can be achieved, LiveScience... |
19 August 2010
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Experts recently managed to develop two new, different approaches of attacking the MRSA, and destroying it for good. Their findings could help save countless lives. MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium that is among the leading causes of deaths from hospital infections around the w... |
17 August 2010
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States has been recently awarded a grant to investigate the most important traits that the human immune system exhibits at the onset of HIV infection.The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the deadliest pathogens on the face of the planet, responsible for the dea... |
17 August 2010
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Researchers in Portugal managed to demonstrate the existence of a new type of white blood cells, which are capable of suppressing the immune system in just one organ. The finding could reduce the rate at which transplanted organs are donating, potentially saving thousands of lives. Thus far, the newly-found NKTreg (r... |
11 August 2010
08:33 GMT |
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A team of investigators at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) has recently determined that exposure to large amounts of social stress can make the brain respond by modifying the way the immune system responds to threats. These modifications can open the way for numerous diseases or infections to set i... |
7 August 2010
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Professor Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu, head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Tel Aviv is recruiting people suffering from colon cancer for a new study. This research will test several drugs that prevent negative stress response after a surgery. The Professor hopes that this will help strengthen the immune... |
22 July 2010
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Children growing up in farms usually never have asthma, are never allergic and are not prone to hay fever. Scientists wandered for a long time what helped them be so resistant, without getting an answer. Dr. Marcus Peters from the Department of Experimental Pneumology at the Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum, finally found th... |
19 July 2010
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Scientists in Japan announce the development of a new biotechnology method of transforming induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) into natural killer T (NKT) cells. The latter class of structures is very well-equipped for destroying cancer tumors, and oncologists have over the past few years tried to develop methods of... |
2 June 2010
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