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The immune system can fight back against Covid-19

The immune system can fight back against Covid-19

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The potential to prevent some spinal cord injuries from resulting in paralysis

The potential to prevent some spinal cord injuries from resulting in paralysis

An injection of nanoparticles can prevent the body’s immune system from overreacting to trauma, potentially preventing some spinal cord injuries from resulting in paralysis. The approach was... Read more

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A masterswitch for the body’s immune system?

A masterswitch for the body’s immune system?

Scientists have discovered a critical part of the body’s immune system with potentially major implications for the treatment of some of the most devastating diseases affecting humans. Profes... Read more

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Tuning up the immune system via chaos

Tuning up the immune system via chaos

Chaos in bodily regulation can optimize our immune system according to a recent discovery made by researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute. The discovery may prove... Read more

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A new mechanism to activate the immune system against cancer

A new mechanism to activate the immune system against cancer

A new mechanism for activating the immune system against cancer cells allows immune cells to detect and destroy cancer cells better than before, according to a study published this week in t... Read more

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Your immune system and the fountain of youth

Your immune system and the fountain of youth

Helping the immune system clear away old cells in aging mice helped restore youthful characteristics If only we could keep our bodies young, healthy and energetic, even as we attain the wisd... Read more

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Boosting immune system activity with a new compound that could lead to more effective cancer treatments and vaccines

Boosting immune system activity with a new compound that could lead to more effective cancer treatments and vaccines

Study identifies mechanisms responsible for improved immune system activity, offering new approaches for more effective cancer treatments and vaccines. Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cell... Read more

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The immune system reacts similarly to a high fat and high calorie diet as to a bacterial infection

The immune system reacts similarly to a high fat and high calorie diet as to a bacterial infection

Study by the University of Bonn shows that even after a change to a healthy diet, the body’s defenses remain hyperactive The immune system reacts similarly to a high fat and high calor... Read more

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Re-activating a compromised immune system to fight sepsis

Re-activating a compromised immune system to fight sepsis

Failure of the immune system during blood poisoning (sepsis) can be reversed by a specific sugar. This restores the ability of immune cells to respond effectively to infections. This week, r... Read more

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Overlooked molecules could revolutionise our understanding of the immune system

Overlooked molecules could revolutionise our understanding of the immune system

Thousands of new immune system signals have been uncovered with potential implications for immunotherapy, autoimmune diseases and vaccine development. The researchers behind the finding say... Read more

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New portable device counts leukocytes through the skin

New portable device counts leukocytes through the skin

A novel way to count white blood cells without a blood test, simply by applying a small device on the fingertip, is being developed by a team of young bioengineers. The technology, that comb... Read more

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Immune system ‘on switch’ breakthrough could lead to new targeted drugs

Immune system 'on switch' breakthrough could lead to new targeted drugs

A crucial ‘on switch’ that boosts the body’s defences against infections has been successfully identified in new scientific research. The breakthrough made by researchers a... Read more

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Stem Cells Provide Lasting Pain Relief in Mice

Stem Cells Provide Lasting Pain Relief in Mice

Chronic pain caused by the nerve damage of type 2 diabetes, surgical amputation, chemotherapy and other conditions is especially intractable because it resists painkilling medications. But i... Read more

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Engineers’ synthetic immune organ produces antibodies

Engineers’ synthetic immune organ produces antibodies

  Cornell engineers have created a functional, synthetic immune organ that produces antibodies and can be controlled in the lab, completely separate from a living organism. The engineer... Read more

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World first as viral immunotherapy for skin cancer shows patient benefit in Phase III trial

World first as viral immunotherapy for skin cancer shows patient benefit in Phase III trial

A genetically engineered herpes virus can halt the progression of skin cancer by killing cancer cells and sparking the immune system into action against tumours, a landmark clinical trial ha... Read more

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