Can profiling CD8 T cell responses from Ebola Survivors improve vaccine design?

31st July 2018 The role of CD8 T cells in protective vaccine induced responses against ebola virus is not clearly defined.
July 31, 2018
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Can platelets directly kill Plasmodium sp. ?

27th July 2018 Studies have shown that platelets can bind and kill infected P.falciparum-infected RBCs (iRBC) and platelet depletion ...
July 27, 2018
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Can viral Immunogenicity govern DENV epidemiological fitness ?

24th July 2018 This study demonstrated the interplay between viral replicative, immunological and epidemiological
July 24, 2018
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How do tuft cells induce Type 2 Responses?

20th July 2018 A study conduted by Nadjsombati et al., aimed to determine how tuft cells are activated in the small intestines.Transcriptional profiling revealed that the ..
July 20, 2018
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CD32: marker of HIV reservoir?

17th July 2018 A study published by Descours et al.,  in Nature last year, identified CD32a as marker of the CD4 T cell HIV reservoir. This study showed that CD32a+ CD4 T cells are enriched in HIV DNA ...
July 17, 2018
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New Hope for TB Vaccines

13th July 2018 Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death due to infectious diseases worldwide. One of the approaches to end the TB epidemic is the development of efficacious vaccines against ...
July 13, 2018
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HIV vaccine induces similar responses in humans and rhesus macaques.

10th July 2018 One of the major challenges of developing a vaccine against HIV, is the extensive HIV strain diversity. One approach being ...
July 10, 2018
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Ontogeny of MAITs

6th July 2018 Researchers from France, aimed to determine the postnatal expansion and maturation of MAITs from birth to adulthood using cross-sectional samples. Ben Youssef et al., predominantly defined MAITs  as Vα7.2+ CD161high T cells, as the MR1-tetarmer ...
July 6, 2018
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Public Antibody Clonotypes observed in HIV+ individuals.

3rd July 2018 A collaborative research project between researchers in South Africa and US, examined the antibody repertoire in HIV ...
July 3, 2018
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