29th June 2018 Researchers conducted a phase 1 clinical trial where individuals were either vaccinated with two doses of BCG or placebo two weeks apart, followed by the standard of care type 1 diabetes treatment.
June 2018
Can testosterone regulate B cell numbers?
28th June 2018 Sex steroids are known to have great effects on the immune system. Females are known to induce stronger immune responses to vaccination than males. Furthermore, Studies have shown that the prevalence of autoimmune disorders such as ...
Initial Immune Responses to TB in the Human Lung
26th June 2018 Early immune responses to pathogens in the lungs play a role in the clearance or establishment of an infection. Our understanding of immunity in the human lung has increased over time but is still limited ...
Antibody-based vaccine protects against 31% of HIV isolates
22nd June 2018 One of the goals in developing an effective, global HIV vaccine is to elicit potent antibodies, capable of neutralizing the majority of circulating HIV strains. These antibodies are known as ...
Natural infection improves breadth of vaccine induced memory
21st June 2018 Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia, aimed to determine if vaccine induced J8-specific memory B cells are boosted upon infection ...
MGIAs: potential role of trained immunity ?
18th June 2018 Researchers led by Tom HM Ottenhof and Mihai Netea (Joosten et al., 2018), aimed to determine the effect of “trained immunity” on mycobacterial growth. Researchers focused on trained immunity, as recent studies have shown that ...
ALAI/SMI Highlight: Have you heard of IL-40?
15th June 2018 The closing plenary lecture at the Latin America Congress was presented by Albert Zlotnik from the University of California, Irvine. One of the highlights of Albert Zlotnik talk was the discovery of IL-40, by his research group, which was recently
Resident CD8+ T cells restrain HIV replication in elite controllers
13th June 2018 One of the most important question in HIV immunology is how CD8+ T cell contribute to immunity against HIV. Despite the fact the HIV replicates in lymphoid tissues, most of CD8+ ...
Latin American Immunology Congress, a cocktail of scientific breaking news.
11th June 2018 A recurrent topic at the Latin American Immunology Congress (in Cancun, Mexico) was advances in oncoimmunology and immunotherapy. Dr Mantovani’s research focuses on how ...
ALAI/SMI congress: Hosts a Nobel Laureate and the 1st Iberoamerican Flow Cytometry Meeting
8th June 2018 The ALAI/SMI congress was preceded by the I Iberoamerican Flow Cytometry Meeting. Some of the highlights of this ...