What factors influence the success or failure of immunotherapy treatment in patients with advanced bladder cancer? Why do only 20% of advanced bladder cancer cases respond to immunotherapy? These are the questions addressed by a recent study led by the…
A discovery at Duke-NUS Medical School offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung condition that progressively makes it harder for patients to breathe. Scientists have pinpointed proteins in immune cells that, when bl…
A team of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi has uncovered how genetic and lifestyle factors influence immune responses to malaria in children from two large West African ethnic groups. The study found that children from the Fulani group have a distinct immu…
Immune therapy has transformed how cancer is treated, but many tumors continue to evade these treatments, thanks to their resemblance to healthy tissue. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have found that some cancers, like deadly brain cancer (glioma…
Current asthma treatments don’t work in all patients, and they don’t provide long-term relief from potentially deadly asthma attacks.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center scientists have discovered a novel subset of cancer-fighting immune cells that reside outside of their normal neighborhood—known as the tertiary lymphoid structure—where they be…
A new study in the Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research (JICR) showed that a specific retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I) agonist RNA (RAR) induces innate immune signaling and death of hepatocellular carcinoma cells in vitro.
A study just published in the journal Microbiome, describes for the first time the intestinal microbiome and metabolome in patients with (genetically acquired) CTLA4 deficiency. CTLA4 is an immune checkpoint, a key element in cancer mechanisms whose di…
New research has found that supplementing the maternal diet with α-tocopherol, a form of vitamin E, can reduce the development of food allergy and anaphylaxis in newborn mice.
Lupus can do irreversible harm to a person’s organs, damaging the lungs, kidneys, heart, liver and other vital organs through inflammation.
