Tag: Immune System
Immune system linked to lower heart attack risk, suggests study
Measuring antibody levels in the blood could be used to detect a person's heart attack risk after researchers, part-funded by the British Heart Foundation...
Super-resolution microscopy reveals unprecedented detail of immune cells’ surface
Salk scientists used light-sheet super-resolution imaging to capture the rearrangement of T-cell receptors from nanometer-scale protein islands (left) to micrometer-scale microclusters (right) after T-cell...
Fighting cancer with the help of someone else’s immune cells
A human T-cell.Credit: NIH
A new step in cancer immunotherapy: researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and University of Oslo/Oslo University Hospital show that even...
Long-term stress erodes memory
Sustained stress erodes memory, and the immune system plays a key role in the cognitive impairment, according to a new study from researchers at...
Researchers shed light on pathway from virus to brain disease
Why people on immunosuppressant drugs for autoimmune conditions have a higher incidence of an often-fatal brain disease may be linked to a mutation in...
HIV: Identification of receptors in patients spontaneously controlling infection
HIV virus particles.Credit: © Institut Pasteur, Charles Dauguet
A small number of patients infected by HIV spontaneously control viral replication without antiretroviral therapy, and do...
Do germs cause type 1 diabetes?
Germs could play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes by triggering the body's immune system to destroy the cells that produce...
Fighting hospital germs with sugar
Sweet spot for therapeutic antibodies: the illustration above shows the three-dimensional structure of the sugar molecule PS-I of C. difficile (orange: carbon; red: oxygen;...
Antibody appears to attack cancer cells, leaving other cells unscathed
A research team from Duke Health has developed an antibody from the body's own immune system that preferentially attacks cancer cells. The antibody works...
Intestinal worms boost immune system in a surprising way
Lymph node follicles (top) and the intestinal worm Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (bottom).Credit: © N. Harris (EPFL)
In order to fight invading pathogens, the immune system...
