Macrophages are the first line of defense of the immune system, helping fight infections and keeping tissues healthy. But in the context of some chronic diseases, these immune cells undergo changes and become pathogenic, helping drive disease and creat…
A new study led by the Centenary Institute and the University of Sydney shows that a nasal vaccine could offer powerful protection against COVID-19. It works by stopping infection in the nose before the virus spreads through the body.
Antibodies are the critical targeting agents of the immune system and the crux of immune therapy and vaccine development, but studying them is slow, expensive and labor-intensive. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dev…
New research presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Vienna, Austria (15–19 September) and published in the journal Diagnostics shows that people with hepatitis B immunity induced by vaccination h…
Psychedelic drugs, long-known for their powerful effects on perception and emotion, may hold the key to treating a wide range of inflammatory diseases where new therapies are urgently needed—from neurodegenerative conditions to gut and respiratory diso…
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that electrically stimulating macrophages—one of the immune systems key players—can reprogram them in such a way as to reduce inflammation and encourage faster, more effective healing in disease an…
If you’re wondering why your spring allergy symptoms never went away, it’s possible you are suffering from spring… into summer… into fall allergies.
A research team has successfully developed the world’s first nasal organoid-based SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody evaluation platform.
Antibiotics are the old medicine cabinet standby for treating infections caused by multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but as antimicrobial resistance continues to mount globally, scientists say there’s a need for new strategies.
A research team led by the Department of Medicine and the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, under the School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has uncovered a serious risk of joint infectio…
