Ultra-processed foods: Here’s how they may affect the way the immune system functions
In our fast-paced world, convenience can often come at the cost of nutrition. This shift has led to an increased reliance on ultra-processed foods.
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Researchers tie Lebrikizumab to sustained atopic dermatitis treatment effect
Lebrikizumab is associated with sustained effects for moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis for up to week 52 following withdrawal of treatment, according to a study presented at the annual Revolutionizing Atopic Dermatitis Conference, held from June 8 …
Brazilian scientists develop functional bread that could help prevent asthma
Brazilian researchers have developed functional bread with the potential to prevent asthma, a respiratory disorder responsible for some 350,000 hospitalizations per year in the SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde), the nation’s public health care network.
Discovery of ‘new rules of the immune system’ could improve treatment of inflammatory diseases, say scientists
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that a type of white blood cell—called a regulatory T cell—exists as a single large population of cells that constantly move throughout the body looking for, and repairing, damaged tissue.
Molecular biomarkers for transplant medicine—AI-driven insights predict organ transplant success
In a study published in Nature Medicine, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) and the Sydney Precision Data Science Centre at the University of Sydney have, for the first time, identified mol…
Drug reprograms immune responses to target glioblastoma
Investigators from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that using a novel drug to target the STING pathway in glioblastoma reprogrammed previously suppressed immune r…
Circadian rhythm drives the release of important immune cells, study reveals
The sites where our bodies come into contact with the outside world—via skin, the surface of the eye, inside the mouth, the lining of the intestine and the urinary tract, for example—are known as barrier tissues.
Study: In severe COVID-19 cases, neutrophils work around the clock
The course of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections depends not only on how aggressive the virus is, but also on the immune response of the infected individual. Using single-cell analyses, a group of researchers led by Samantha Praktiknjo of the Berlin Ins…
FDA official: The risk of secondary cancer from CAR-T therapy is less than feared
The risk of secondary cancer after CAR-T therapy, pioneered at Penn, is less than regulators feared last year, an FDA official said June 14 at cell and gene therapy conference in King of Prussia.
Shoring up blood vessels may offer new approach for treating autoimmune rheumatic diseases
A study from physician-scientists at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) points to a potential novel approach for treating autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis—preventing antibodies and immune cells from leaving the bloodstream and entering…