Results Lay Groundwork for New, More Targeted Immune Therapies. New UC San Francisco research sheds light on how immune system B cells that infiltrate the central nervous system may drive multiple sclerosis (MS), pointing the way to a new generation of targeted immune therapies to halt the progression of the disease. MS is a common...
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Better vaccines are in our blood
by Harvard University Red blood cells do more than shuttle oxygen from our lungs to our organs: they also help the body fight off infections by capturing pathogens on their surfaces, neutralizing them, and presenting them to immune cells in the spleen and liver. Now, a team of researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically...
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How a mutation on the novel coronavirus has come to dominate the globe
by La Jolla Institute for Immunology Flashback to mid-March: the novel coronavirus had reached San Diego, California. Few people could get tested, and even less was known about how the virus mutated as it spread from person to person. Scientists now know that two variants of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) were circulating at that time....
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Call for caution for using a CAR-T immunotherapy against Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematological malignancy which incidence increases with age, that is biologically, phenotypically, and genetically very heterogeneous. Its treatment uses to combine chemotherapy followed by allogenic Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells transplant (allo-HSCT), based on the patient’s eligibility, to consolidate complete remission and prevent relapse. Yet, except for a few subgroups,...
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‘Relaxed’ T cells critical to immune response
This news or article is intended for readers with certain scientific or professional knowledge in the field. Like finding that needle in the haystack every time, your T cells manage what seems like an improbable task: quickly finding a few invaders among the many imposters in your body to trigger its immune response. T cells...
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Birmingham scientists ‘re-train’ immune system to prevent attack of healthy cells
The body’s immune system can be re-wired to prevent it from recognising its own proteins which, when attacked by the body, can cause autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, a significant new study by UK scientists has found. Autoimmune diseases are caused when the immune system loses its normal focus on fighting infections or disease within...
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Why Choose Competitive ELISA or Sandwich ELISA?
Sponsored Content by St John’s Laboratory Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) is a basic, sensitive, reliable, and efficient analytical method employed for the quantification and detection of protein biomarkers in immunoassays.1 How Does an ELISA Work? The ELISA method is established on the strength of the interaction between an antigen and an antibody, frequently called the binding specificity and...