Duke Researchers Discover Candidate Susceptibility Gene For Autoimmune Disease
...erlyinggenetic defects that can lead some people's immune systems to attack theirown bodies, the Duke researchers say. Led by Dr. Perry Blackshear of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at DukeUniversity, the research team published their results in the May issue ofthe journal Immunity. Gregory Taylor an...Race Plus Roaches: A Breathtaking Link
...enetic differences, important in the regulation of immune responses, hold a clue. Low socioeconomic status forces families to live in substandard housing, whether urban or suburban, he says. Older homes, or those in crowded areas, give cockroaches a fertile breeding ground. The domestic cockroach has been ...Florida Researchers Discover Gene For Fatal Childhood Disease
... Children born with the syndrome have an inherited immune deficiencythat weakens their ability to battle bacteria and viruses. They typically dieby age 6 of infection or cancer, usually lymphoma or leukemia. The gene normally acts as a master switch to regulate the transport ofproteins within cells,...Humble Pocket Gophers Shed Light On The Genetic Fortitude Of Cheetahs
...ted skin grafts from each other, a sign that their immune systems were genetically almost identical. However...ant seals, may have little variability among their immune systems and thus may be more vulnerable to outbreaks of disease. "Genetic variation is the stuff of ...Researchers Find Possible New Route to Making Cancer Cells Vulnerable
...patients with cancer, but without compromising the immune system. "We may have identified an Achill...s, but little had beenknown about how these common immune suppressants work in this setting,"Heitman said. "Our findings shed light on a new mechanism that ca...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
...rs were studying why somebacteria escape attack by immune system cells called macrophages, whichare designed...care. When bacteria invade the body, the immune system floods the bacterialcell with noxious oxygen and nitrogen-free radicals. The researc...Nitric Oxide Found To Control Cells By Turning On Genes; Suggests New Role In Health And Disease
...rs were studying why somebacteria escape attack by immune system cells called macrophages, whichare designed...care. When bacteria invade the body, the immune system floods the bacterialcell with noxious oxygen and nitrogen-free radicals. The researc...Discovery Of Cell Sites May Shed Light On How Bodily Systems Interact
... receptors for a hormone-like substancemade by the immune system and associated with declines in growth-horm...urprises and may help scientists understand howthe immune system harnesses other physiological systems to regulate animalgrowth and disease. First, the recept...Northwestern Scientists Discover How Herpes Simplex Virus Infects Cells
... to receivesignals required to induce cells of the immune or other system toproliferate or to die. A report...t herpeticdisease can occur in persons with normal immune systems and will lead todevelopment of new classes of antiviral drugs," said Patricia G. Spear, whoh...Disease Resistance Mechanism Identified in Plants
...acts much like an antigen in animals, eliciting an immune response from the plant. Researchers suspect that the resistance mechanism observed in tomatoes also occurs in many other plants. Their results appear in the December 20 issue of the journal Science . Having identified this basic gene-fo...Mechanism For Disease Resistance Identified In Plants
...acts much like an antigen in animals, eliciting an immune response from the plant. Researchers suspect that the resistance mechanism observed in tomatoes also occurs in many other plants. Their results appear in the December 20 issue of the journal Science . Having identified this basic gene-for-...Laser Microscope At Cornell Images Serotonin In Live Cells
...ed for studies of the nervous system, not just the immune system or allergic response, but to a broad range of areas. Webb invented the technology for scanning laser microscopy in 1989 with Winfried Denk, now at AT&T Bell Labs, and Jim Strickler, now at McKinsey Co., and has been using it since for biophysi...Scientists Determine 3-D Crystal Structure Of Cancer-Causing Protein
...ly plays an important role in regulating thebody's immune system and other cellular behavior. Src is found in nearly allcells of the body, but Hck primarily arises in cells related to the immunesystem, such as macrophages and B cells. In a related paper published in thisissue of Nature , a team of scientis......with unpaired electrons that are bad for the human immune system. "But our mutants lacking vitamin C had shriveled leaves. When grown in an ozone-contained environment, those plants, the ones with shriveled leaves, were not able to cope with environmental stress." Their study, "Environmental stress sensiti...High Levels of Vitamin C Prove Toxic to HIV
...g Cancer Center scientists shows that HIV-infected immune cells take in more vitamin C and glucose than thei...re toxic to the HIV-infected cells than to healthy immune cells, the investigators report in the Feb. 28 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. HIV-i...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...eated apromising compound that recruits the body's immune system totarget and wipe out cancer cells in the l...s is designed to focus the full forceof the body's immune system on the area of the body under attackby cancer. While such research is widespread, this vaccin...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...ated a promising compound that recruits the body's immune system to target and wipe out cancer cells in the ... is designed to focus the full force of the body's immune system on the area of the body under attack by cancer. While such research is widespread, this vacci......bring the virus under control and allow the body's immune system to knock it out." Katze cautions that while his team's research is an important first step, a therapy for HCV is not around the corner. The study is published in the April 14 edition of Virology (vol. 230, no. 2, pp. 217-227, Academic ...New Vaccine Blocks Viral Entry In Cattle, May Have Implications For Human Vaccines
How could you improve on the immune system? It fights off bacteria and viruses that in... a cow's nose, the vaccine stimulates the animal's immune system to make antibodies. These antibodies line the cow's nasal passages and block the virus from e...Emory Researchers Advance Gene Therapy Studies For Metastatic Melanoma Treatment
...ngredient which they believe may direct the body's immune system to kill malignant melanoma tumor cells, the... macrophage colony stimulating factor) directs the immune system to shift into overdrive and attack melanoma tumor cells. Cytokines are natural proteins made...