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Can a cancer treatment work on COVID-19?
Researchers are exploring engineering specific virus-targeting receptors onto a patient’s own immune cells as a way to fight infectious diseases, including COVID-19. This therapy, which has...
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New clues suggest how autoimmune diseases begin
New research in mice may upend current ideas about how autoimmune diseases get started. After cancer and heart disease, the most common group of diseases in the US are autoimmune diseases, which occur...
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Block immune ‘memory’ to limit organ rejection
New research suggests the innate immune system remembers foreign cells. The finding could pave the way to drugs that lengthen long-term survival of organ transplants, researchers say. Chronic rejection...
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T cells need to ‘relax’ to work best
T cells need to “relax” to protect people from diseases, according to a new study. Like finding that needle in the haystack every time, your T cells manage what seems like an improbable task: quickly...
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Lab-made killer T cell attacks cells that cause diabetes
A genetically engineered T cell can target and attack other T cells that cause type 1 diabetes, according to research in mice. The work could lead to new immunotherapy treatments. The immune system...
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New ‘recipe’ could lead to better COVID-19 vaccines
A new study looking at the way human cells activate the immune system in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection could open the door to even more effective and powerful vaccines against the coronavirus and...
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Past coronavirus ‘memories’ may explain mild COVID
New research hints that people with COVID-19 may experience milder symptoms if certain cells of their immune systems “remember” previous encounters with seasonal coronaviruses—the ones that cause about...
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1 protein stops T cells from fighting multiple sclerosis
A new study shows that a certain protein prevents regulatory T cells from effectively doing their job in controlling the damaging effects of inflammation in a model of multiple sclerosis. Multiple...
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How asthma may cut brain tumor risk
People with asthma seem to be less likely to develop brain tumors than others and now researchers believe they’ve discovered why via a study of mice. It comes down to the behavior of T cells, a type of...
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Why stem cell transplants for MS work so well
Researchers have pinpointed why stem cell transplants work so well for multiple sclerosis. A better understanding of these mechanisms should help the treatment approach, currently approved in only a...
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