by University of Wisconsin-Madison Brock Kingstad-Bakke, a scientist in the UW School of Veterinary Medicine. Credit: School of Veterinary Medicine A second line of defense—the immune system’s T cells—may offer protection from COVID-19 even when vaccine-induced antibodies no longer can, according to new research out of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. The...
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Discovery offers potential for stripping tumors of T cell protection
by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Credit: CC0 Public Domain Immunologists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered that tumors use a unique mechanism to switch on regulatory T cells to protect themselves from attack by the immune system. Surprisingly, the mechanism does not affect regulatory T cell function outside the tumor and may therefore limit the...