Why Immunotherapy fails 60% of Metastatic Melanoma Patients
Brian Blum via Israel21c – The ultimate goal is to improve personalized medicine. “Can we predict who will respond?” asks Markel. “Can we alter treatment in order to increase responses?”…
Transplanted Brain Stem Cells Survive Without Anti-Rejection Drugs
Johns Hopkins Medicine via Science Daily – In experiments in mice, researchers say they have developed a way to successfully transplant certain protective brain cells without the need for lifelong…
Memory T Cells Shelter in Bone Marrow, Boosting Immunity in Mice with Restricted Diets
National Institutes of Health News Release – Though this phenomenon has yet to be studied in humans, the findings suggest how the immune system may have evolved to help mammals…
Breakthrough in Understanding of Immune System Dysfunction
Naama Barak via Israel21c – Israeli and international scientists pinpoint protein that regulates exhaustion in T cells in discovery that may help fight disease. An international team of scientists has…
Developing Therapeutic Strategies for Pregnant Women with Lupus
Virginia Tech via EurekAlert – “For patients with autoimmune lupus, diet and probiotics are the two relatively easy and acceptable approaches that can potentially improve disease management through modulating the…
‘Tiny Fat Bubbles’ Can Boost Immunity, Calm Disease
University of Queensland via EurekAlert – People living with inflammatory autoimmune disease could benefit from an ‘immune system reboot’, and researchers have isolated specific cells to target. People living with…
Boosting the Anti-Inflammatory Action of the Immune System
University of Illinois at Chicago via News Wise – “Harnessing the anti-inflammatory function of macrophages using the Gas6 switch holds great potential for treating diseases ranging from heart disease to…
Precision Editing of Gut Bacteria, the Answer for Reducing Cancer Risk?
UT Southwestern Medical Center via News Wise – “Our intestinal tract is teeming with microbes, many of which are beneficial and contribute to our overall health. Yet, under certain conditions,…
Cancer Device Created at Rutgers to See if Targeted Chemotherapy is Working
Rutgers University via EurekAlert – Artificial intelligence and biosensors can rapidly detect if live cancer cells remain after treatment. Rutgers researchers have created a device that can determine whether targeted…
Thioredoxin Antioxidant Could Soon Be Used to Improve Cancer Treatment
Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD via News Medical Life Sciences – Researchers from Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have discovered the use of thioredoxin a naturally occurring antioxidant to modulate…
