COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to traditional immunotherapy.
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COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to traditional immunotherapy.
How pollution and the microbiome interact with Tregs, the immune system regulators whose discovery was honored with the Nobel Prize
Researchers are gaining insights into how external factors like air pollutants, diet and medications, and even microbes in the gut interact with regulatory T cells, for better or for worse.
How does your immune system stay balanced? A Nobel Prize-winning answer
Regulatory T cells help your immune system distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘nonself’ – and can open doors to better treatments for cancer, autoimmune disease and transplant rejection.
Your immune system attacks drugs like it does viruses – paradoxically offering a way to improve cancer treatment
As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But exploiting this process could reduce the side effects of chemotherapy.
If you have a pet as a kid, does this lower your risk of asthma and eczema?
Some studies indicate children with pets may be less likely to have allergies. But the evidence can be tricky to interpret.
Mitochondria can sense bacteria and trigger your immune system to trap them – revealing new ways to treat infections and autoimmunity
Not only do mitochondria serve as the engine of the cell – they also act as watchtowers for the immune system.
Some viruses prefer mosquitoes to humans, but people get sick anyway − a virologist and entomologist explain why
The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between people, however, it faces extra challenges.
Long COVID inflicts deep scars on the lungs, but targeting specific immune cells could reverse damage − new research in mice
Researchers developed a new mouse model that replicates long COVID-19 more accurately than current models. Their findings could lead to new treatments.
What’s the difference between ‘man flu’ and flu? Hint: men may not be exaggerating
Is it time to cut the men in your life some slack this winter? Here’s what the evidence says.