Immunology News

"Don't write that we have a cure for cancer tomorrow," says Pascal Soriot, chief executive of AstraZeneca, "but there are some spectacular results."

Parents, take extra care while your young ones are outside this summer - U.Va doctors say a tick-borne meat allergy may now affect children.

June 18, 2013 - Joshua Obar, Ph.D., Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University-Bozeman, has been honored with a 2013 ICAAC Young Investigator Award for his research on factors affecting the regulation of immunological memory responses to infection.

The body's most powerful immune cells may have a radical way of catching their prey that could backfire on people who are overweight and others at risk for cancer, diabetes and chronic inflammation, suggests a new Cornell study.

A cyclic dinucleotide comprised of GMP and AMP was previously shown to be a key intermediate during activation of innate immune responses to cytosolic DNA.

From the Department of Medicine and Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute , and Department of Microbiology and Immunology and David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology , University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY.

This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase II study is conducted in 8 major medical centers in .

"These findings represent an effort to help solve one of the major global health crises of our time -- the resurgence of TB and its dangerous drug-resistant strains," said Peter G. Schultz, the Scripps Family Chair Professor of Chemistry at TSRI, who was senior author of the study with William R. Jacobs, Jr., member of the Howard Hughes Medical ... (more)

The 'supercharged' vaccine enables the immune system to overcome dust mite allergy - one of the leading triggers of asthma attacks.

A team of Canadian researchers has found that platelets in mice liver collaborate with special types of white blood cells to help capture bacteria.

SATURDAY, June 15 -- Sneezing, watery eyes, scratchy throat? What you think is a summer cold may actually be allergies, an expert says.

Joseph Pidala, M.D., M.S., assistant member of the Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant and Immunology programs at Moffitt Cancer Center, and colleagues from the Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease Consortium have determined that certain gastrointestinal and liver-related types of chronic graft-versus-host disease are associated with worsened quality of ... (more)

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a way to trigger reproduction in the laboratory of clusters of human cells that make insulin, potentially removing a significant obstacle to transplanting the cells as a treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes .

Novartis International AG / Three Scientists to Receive Prestigious Novartis Prizes for Immunology at 15th International Congress of Immunology .

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"Contrary to popular belief, seasonal allergies don't only strike in the spring and fall months," Dr. Richard Weber, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology , said in a college news release.

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According to the experts at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology , the big allergy triggers during our warmer months are grass and mold.

Iranian journal of allergy, asthma, and immunology , Vol. 11, No. 2. , pp. 165-173, doi:011.02/ijaai.165173 Fumonisins, a family of mycotoxins, are mainly toxic and carcinogenic.

The compound is a polymer, and also creates color in the eye and hair. Higher levels of melanin determines darker pigment for a person.