Inflammation is at the origin and progression of diseases such as diabetes or cancer
...ring the inflammatory response. Antonio Celada, an immunologist at IRB Barcelona, will present the latest results of his team on macrophages, cells that play a key role in the bodys immune response....Peanut allergies overstated, study finds
...d Dr Brynn Wainstein, a Sydney Children's Hospital immunologist and MD candidate at UNSW. "Because peanut allergies are potentially serious, requiring all sorts of restrictions, families can become very anxious when in fact, some of these families may be worrying unnecessarily," Dr Wainstein said. The study, ...Cracking open the black box of autoimmune disease
...ichard Young's Whitehead lab, working closely with immunologist Harald von Boehmer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, used a DNA microarray technology developed by Young to scan the entire genome of T cells and locate the genes controlled by Foxp3. There were roughly 30 genes found to be directly controlled by ...Rice breakthrough could prevent multiple fibrotic diseases
... 2001 after a chance meeting betweenhimself and UK immunologist Darrell Pilling. Gomer, who'd spent most of hiscareer studying the single-celled amoebae Dictyostelium, met Pilling atlunch during a cell biology conference. Pilling, who was a post-doctoralresearch fellow at the University of Birmingham in the UK, h...Researchers identify molecule that causes destructive lung inflammation in cystic fibrosis patients
...gh researchers led by Children's pulmonologist and immunologist Jay K. Kolls, MD, reported that IL-23 and another cytokine, interleukin-17, are elevated in CF patients with chronic lung infections. The latest research by Dr. Kolls and Children's pulmonologist Patricia Dubin, MD, pinpoints IL-23 as the crucial med...Wounds may one day heal better, faster, due to new NIH-funded wound healing centers
...eneration. Luisa A. DiPietro, D.D.S., Ph.D., an immunologist and cell biologist at the University of Illinois in Chicago. DiPietro's group will study wound healing in mucosal tissues, which protect body cavities and canals that come into contact with the air. These tissues, such as those found in the mouth and...Finding paves way for better treatment of autoimmune disease
...T cells can survive," says Dr. Makio Iwashima, MCG immunologist and the study's corresponding author. "After three days, we give them some food to grow and, in one week, you get about 90 percent pure regulatory cells." The approach worked with laboratory-grade alcohol, called butanol, as well as beverage-grade ...NWO/Spinoza Prize for psychologist, immunologist, biologist and physicist
... throughout the world. Prof. C.G. (Carl) Figdor, immunologist at the Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences and the University of Twente. Figdor was one of the first in the world to apply dendritic cell therapy training the individual's immune system to attack tumour cells to cancer patients. Furthermore......s." When co-senior author Claude Roth, Ph.D., an immunologist at the Institut Pasteur, discovered that low levels of a protein called Axl, which belongs to a class of molecules collectively known as receptor tyrosine kinases, correlated with diminished killer activity in natural killer cells, he turned to Lemke...Epstein-Barr virus might kick-start multiple sclerosis
..." said first author Jan Lnemann, a neurologist and immunologist at The Rockefeller University in New York. "Epstein-Barr virus does not cause MS, but the immune response to this virus is different in MS patients, and our hypothesis is that the altered immune response contributes to the development and progression...Efforts to replicate controversial diabetes therapy bring partial success
...t cure rates previously reported," said transplant immunologist Anita Chong, Ph.D., associate professor of surgery at the University of Chicago and lead author of the study. "We saw no evidence, however, of spleen-derived beta cells in the pancreas, despite using very sensitive tests." While the results provide ......gs were unexpected," says Dale Umetsu, MD, PhD, an immunologist at Children's Hospital Boston and senior investigator on both the human and mouse studies. "They suggest we need to look at asthma in a different way in terms of therapies." Asthma affects 20 million people in the U.S., and in 2003 caused nearly 2 mi...Newly identified mechanism helps explain why people of African descent are more vulnerable to TB
...es vulnerable populations particularly hard," said immunologist Barry R. Bloom, Dean of the Faculty at HSPH and a co-author of the paper. "This study provides a new mechanism for innate immunity in humans and demonstrates how variations in vitamin D synthesis may make individuals susceptible to TB infection. It ...UTSA researchers awarded $6.4 million to study tularemia
...how Franciscella tularensis causes tularemia, UTSA immunologist Bernard Arulanandam hopes to characterize and identify mechanisms that could lead to long term immunity. Teale and Berton are focusing on early responses when tularemia enters the body. "My research focuses on defining the later-term adaptive immune...New type of rejection blocker protects kidneys after transplant
...ecipients of the treatment," Vincenti said. A UCSF immunologist whose research has led to the development of immune tolerance drugs, Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, put the study in context. "This work underscores the enormous potential of co-stimulatory blockade as a strategy for inducing immune tolerance, not only in t...Rockefeller University vaccine researchers selected for a grant offer from Foundation for NIH
... team of researchers led by Rockefeller University immunologist Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., has been selected for a grant offer from the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) of $14 million to support the design of novel vaccines that stimulate multiple components of the body's immune response, including those that have bee...ANU medical researcher wins national award
ANU immunologist Professor Chris Goodnow has been awarded the Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research for his research in molecular genetics. Professor Goodnow, the Director of the Australian Phenomics Facility and Head of t...New tool reveals secrets of migrating cells
...f long-range cell migrations through tissue," said immunologist Ellen Robey, professor of immunology at the University of California, Berkeley. "The ability to directly visualize cells in living tissues has changed the way immunologists think about how cells explore their environment, how they signal to each othe...Immune system's initial response to cancer under study
...n the laboratory of Dr. Leszek Ignatowicz, also an immunologist in the MCG Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics....Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists identify immune-system mutation
... team of Fox Chase Cancer Center scientists led by immunologist Dietmar J. Kappes, Ph.D., has identified the genetic mutation that keeps a mouse strain from developing white blood cells , or lymphocytes, called helper T cells. The report by Kappes and his colleagues appears in the Feb. 24 issue of Nature . Kap...