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Key protein appears to kill off HIV food supply in certain cells
Today, we're one small but significant step closer to figuring out how to get certain cells to fight back against HIV infection. Specifically, scientists with the NYU Langone Medical Center and
Targeting NKp46 boosts immune response, Innate Pharma believes
In the bid to develop drugs to boost the immune system and fend off various infections, NKp46 may be the next big target. NKp46 is a receptor that helps regulate the immune system's natural killer
Researchers hope to boost body's response to chronic infections
When the body is under attack from an infection, the immune system develops memory T cells that help remember and attack the disease if it returns. But with chronic viruses like HIV or hepatitis C,
Emory researchers find long-lasting vax immunity via yellow fever
Researchers at Emory University have used one of the most successful vaccines, yellow fever, to promote longer-lasting immunity for vaccine recipients. And their discoveries could lead to fewer
Investigators create cancer-fighting T cell receptors
After 10 years of lab work a team of German scientists say they have developed a transgenic mouse model with modified T cell receptors that can help the immune system hunt down and destroy cancer
Space-bound mice used in immunity, stem cell studies
Astronauts tend to get sick, and Millie Hughes-Fulford of the Northern California Institute for Research and Education and the University of California at San Francisco, who actually flew on a NASA
Scientists: Vitamin D crucial for immunity
Danish scientists have determined sufficient intake of vitamin D is vital for the killer T cells of the immune system to fend off serious infections. And these findings could prove useful in the
Brain cells can muster a protective response
In experiments published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Brain Behavior and Immunity, researchers showed that dendritic cells native to the brain can muster the immune
'Super-charged' immune systems destroy childhood tumors
Using select antibodies to "super charge" the human immune system has proven an effective treatment of a virulent form of childhood cancer in lab tests, says a group of British scientists.
Bone marrow in test tube offers new tool to researchers
A lab at the University of Michigan has created artificial human bone marrow in a test tube, and the end product can be used to test new drugs more efficiently, study the human immune system and
