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Research group analyzes methods to tackle antibiotic resistance

One major threat that the world faces and researchers are working to combat today is antibiotic resistance, and six CSRI students are doing their part in the fight.

28 Jul 2021

Study proposes methods to purge unstable regulatory T cells

Scientists from the Babraham Institute, United Kingdom and VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium, came up with two solutions that can overcome a major clinical limitation of immune cell therapies. The researchers chose mice as their model. The findings were published recently in the journal Science Immunology.

27 Jul 2021

Researchers develop repository showcasing antibody activity on spike protein variants

Scientists have created an “atlas” that charts how 152 different antibodies attack a major piece of the SARS-CoV-2 machinery, the spike protein.

27 Jul 2021

Study employs llama nanobodies to hunt human cytomegalovirus

Researchers created a “nanobody”, a small fragment of a llama antibody, that can evade human cytomegalovirus as it hides away from the immune system.

26 Jul 2021

Cell-analysis method could pave the way for new strategies to fight tuberculosis

A new method that analyzes how individual immune cells react to the bacteria that cause tuberculosis could pave the way for new vaccine strategies against this deadly disease, and provide insights into fighting other infectious diseases around the world.

23 Jul 2021

New transferrable and integrative type I CRISPR-based platform to efficiently edit superbugs

A research team led by Dr Aixin YAN, Associate Professor from the Research Division for Molecular & Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, in collaboration with Honorary Clinical Professor Patrick CY WOO from the Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, reported the development of a transferrable and integrative type I CRISPR-based platform.

23 Jul 2021

Largest study identifies causal genetic variants associated with type 1 diabetes risk

Scientists have completed the largest and most diverse genetic study of type 1 diabetes ever undertaken, identifying new drug targets to treat a condition that affects 1.3 million American adults.

23 Jul 2021

Study reveals SARS-CoV-2 variant is less sensitive to inhibition by antibodies

SARS-CoV-2 is still a major threat to humankind. The constant emergence of variants makes the threat made by the virus difficult to estimate. The SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.617 spread in India and gave rise to the Delta variant, B.1.617.2, which is now dominant in numerous countries.

23 Jul 2021

SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.617 can infect lung and intestinal cells more efficiently than the original virus

SARS-CoV-2 still poses major challenges to mankind. The frequent emergence of mutant forms makes the threat posed by the virus difficult to predict.

22 Jul 2021

New study could prevent T cell exhaustion in the immune system’s fight against cancer

Struggling against a tumor is not a sprint. It is a marathon. The race of cancer-fighting T cells is at times simply very long, and the T cells give up fighting. This phenomenon is referred to as T cell exhaustion by researchers.

21 Jul 2021

Scientists provide insights on immune evasion of metastatic cancer cells in lymph nodes

Lymph nodes are critical to the body's immune response against tumors but paradoxically, cancer cells that spread, or metastasize, to lymph nodes can often avoid being eliminated by immune cells.

20 Jul 2021

Experts evaluate traditional dogmas related to dairy cow health during transition period

For dairy cows, the transition period--the time between a cow giving birth and beginning to produce milk--brings the greatest possibility of health problems.

20 Jul 2021

Researchers use body-on-a-chip cancer models to study personalized immunotherapy response

Wake Forest researchers and clinicians are using patient-specific tumor 'organoid' models as a preclinical companion platform to better evaluate immunotherapy treatment for appendiceal cancer, one of the rarest cancers affecting only 1 in 100,000 people.

20 Jul 2021

Immune System News and Research

Research group analyzes methods to tackle antibiotic resistance

Study proposes methods to purge unstable regulatory T cells

Researchers develop repository showcasing antibody activity on spike protein variants

Study employs llama nanobodies to hunt human cytomegalovirus

Cell-analysis method could pave the way for new strategies to fight tuberculosis

New transferrable and integrative type I CRISPR-based platform to efficiently edit superbugs

Largest study identifies causal genetic variants associated with type 1 diabetes risk

Study reveals SARS-CoV-2 variant is less sensitive to inhibition by antibodies

SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.617 can infect lung and intestinal cells more efficiently than the original virus

New study could prevent T cell exhaustion in the immune system’s fight against cancer

Scientists provide insights on immune evasion of metastatic cancer cells in lymph nodes

Experts evaluate traditional dogmas related to dairy cow health during transition period

Researchers use body-on-a-chip cancer models to study personalized immunotherapy response

Metabolite produced by gut microbes found to be involved in regulating commensal bacteria

Subset of immune cells may carry out a sort of 'secondary education' to protect pregnancy

Study confirms long-term immune system responses of adenovirus vaccines for COVID-19

Isoflavone diet plus metabolizing gut bacteria may provide protection against MS

Study reveals how fine-tuning the immune system can improve vaccines, reduce disease severity

Universal stem cells exhibit the potential for more cost-effective cell therapy

New method for generating metabolic profiles of individual cells

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