Innovations in asthma care can improve the health of Detroiters living with this chronic disease
Researchers and doctors are beginning to modernize asthma treatment using innovative therapies.
Allergy and immunology
Food-induced allergic reactions needing ED visit on the rise in infants
While early allergen introduction may reduce long-term allergy risk, it is tied to an increase in emergency department (ED) visits for food reactions in infancy, according to a study published in the March issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical I…
CAR T-cell therapy improves symptoms of myasthenia gravis, clinical trial shows
A new study led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and Cartesian Therapeutics, found that immunotherapy can help people with generalized myasthenia gravis, a disease where the body accidentally attacks the cells that help your nerves and musc…
Targeting the gut’s immune system could tackle early stages of Parkinson’s
New research reveals how Parkinson’s spreads from the gut to the brain, with the help of immune cells—offering a new potential therapeutic strategy—in a study in mice led by scientists at the UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL (University College Lo…
DNA research uncovers 22 genes that could put people at risk of long-term health conditions
Baylor College of Medicine researchers are part of a collaborative research group with AstraZeneca and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that have identified 22 genes which increase the risk of developing a range of chronic conditions following a …
Interferon signal reprograms macrophage mitochondria to promote inflammation resolution, finds study
When our body fights an infection, the immune system must quickly activate defenses and trigger a beneficial inflammatory response. But it is just as important to resolve that inflammation and return to homeostasis. Macrophages play a key role in this …
Team unveils simpler, faster way to make vaccines
UVA Health scientists have developed a promising new way to create vaccines that could be faster, cheaper, and easier to distribute than current options. The University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Dr. Steven L. Zeichner leads the team that is refi…
Antibody-producing immune cells can help shape cancer immunotherapy
Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified an important immune response that helps explain why some cancer patients benefit from immunotherapy while others do not.
New study finds heart attacks involve brain and immune system, not just heart
Arteries become clogged. Blood flow is restricted and oxygen is cut off. The result is a heart attack, the world’s leading cause of death.
How your life story leaves epigenetic fingerprints on your immune cells
The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen have such different responses? It largely comes down to…