Items tagged with immune

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Cell Invasion Caught on Camera Thursday, October 15th, 2009 - 10:02:21 - Anuradha Menon Despite being surrounded by a supposedly unbreachable defensive line, the body's central nervous system can still be attacked by autoimmune diseases... read more

Studies Reveal Leukemia-Initiating Cells Monday, July 27th, 2009 - 14:06:47 - Ehud Rattner Two new studies reveal a way to increase the body's appetite for gobbling up the cancer stem cells responsible for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a... read more

A Knockout Vaccine for Rabies? Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 - 11:59:03 - Ehud Rattner A team of virologists and immunologists in the United States have engineered a new strain of the rabies virus that induces a far more potent immune... read more

DNA Component Stimulates Immune Response Monday, February 2nd, 2009 - 15:51:50 - Ehud Rattner A component of DNA that can both stimulate and suppress the immune system, depending on the dosage, may hold hope for treating cancer and infection... read more

Breakthrough Against Poxviruses and Smallpox Monday, January 26th, 2009 - 13:55:40 - Ehud Rattner Smallpox has a nasty history throughout the world. Caused by poxviruses, smallpox is one of the few disease-causing agents against which the human... read more

Baffling the Body into Accepting Transplants Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 12:05:38 - Anuradha Menon An unexpected discovery made by a Sydney scientist has potential to alter the body's response to anything it perceives as not ‘self’, such as a... read more

Nitric Oxide Shown to Cause Colon Cancer Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 - 10:14:13 - Anuradha Menon Researchers long ago established a link between inflammation, cancer and the compound nitric oxide, which may be produced when the immune system... read more

New Light on Cells' Ability to Follow Saturday, October 4th, 2008 - 14:53:09 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have long known that single-cell organisms find their way around by detecting chemicals in their surroundings. Now new research out this... read more

Immune And Nerve System - Genetic Link Monday, September 22nd, 2008 - 11:55:49 - Ehud Rattner Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered genetic links between the nervous system and the immune system in a well-studied worm, and... read more

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