Articles Tagged “immune”
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AIDS: The explanation for poor immune response to the HIV virus
Scientists have identified a cellular factor that could explain why dendritic cells, true “sentinel” of the immune system, sometimes have a poor response to the HIV virus, this discovery paving the way for the development…
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IRX Therapeutics Announces New Research Collaboration
IRX Therapeutics, a developer of immune therapies to make cancer treatments better, announced today it has signed a research collaboration agreement with one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical companies. In this collaboration, tumor specimens…
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ViroStatics Demonstrates Clinical Proof of Concept for Dual Antiviral Anti-Hyperactivation AV-HALT Drugs
An analysis of immune markers measured in a sub-study of ViroStatics’ proof-of-concept Phase 2a trial showed that VS411 was able to reduce immune activation while producing a median 1.5 log10 reduction in viral load. VS411…
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Certain Cancer Therapies’ Success Depends on Presence of Immune Cell, Mouse Study Shows
The defense mechanisms may play a vital role in ensuring the prosperity of certain kinds of cancer therapies, according to new research by researchers in the Stanford University School of drugs. The study showed treatments…
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Tumor-secreted exosomes inhibit the immune response, enhancing tumor metastasis
Current research suggests that tumor-secreted exosomes inhibit the immune response, enhancing tumor metastasis. The related report by Liu et al, appears in the May 2010 issue of The American Journal of Pathology. The immune system…
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Just one protein regulates 2 immune pathways
Unchecked, the natural or innate immune system can exhaust control – like a stuck accelerator on a car. Eventually, it will kill the host it should really protect. That is important because the innate immune…
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HIV Patients Hold Hints in order to Salmonella Vaccine Improvement
A study published in the diary Science offers a long-awaited explanation for that link between HIV infection and susceptibility to life-threatening nontyphoidal strains of Salmonella. The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust and GlaxoSmithKline, procedes…
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New Model Tracks the Immune Response to a T
Using T cells primed for the infectious disease toxoplasmosis, Whitehead Institute researchers have created novel mouse models of the immune system that more accurately reflect how immune cells actually respond to pathogens in their presence.…
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Rheumatoid Arthritis stopped by New ‘Suicide’ Molecule
A researcher from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has invented a novel way to halt and even reverse rheumatoid arthritis. He developed an imitation of a suicide molecule that floats undetected into overactive immune…
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Cannabis Hope for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Chemicals found in cannabis could prove an effective treatment for the inflammatory bowel diseases Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease, say scientists. Laboratory tests have shown that two compounds found in the cannabis plant — the…
