7th March 2018 The conference provided a wonderful platform on which the Indian government and research community to showcase its commitment to achieving the third United Nations Sustainable Development ....
2018
5GFTB Highlights: MTBVAC potential BCG replacement
5th March 2018 Carlos Martin presented his research on the development of MTBVAC vaccine, a live attenuated M.tb strain from lineage 4 (Euro-African-American). Attenuation of the M.tb strain used in the MTBVAC...
Article Highlight: Differentially Expressed Host linc RNA and mRNA in HIV-1 and HIV-2 Infection (Santanu et al., 2018)
2 March 2018 In the whole human genome, only <3% of genomic DNA is transcribed into mRNAs that code for proteins, while >80% of genomic DNA is transcribed into RNAs that do not encode ...
5GFTB Highlights: Can we immunologically distinguish LTBI, EPTB and PTB
26th February 2018 Srabanti Rakshit, PhD candidate from the Indian Institute of Science, presented her work which aimed to determine unique T cell features that can distinguish LTBI, PTB and EPTB (Rakshit et al.). M.tb-specific CD4 ....
5GFTB Highlights: Can we induce BCG-mediated long term innate immunity
23rd February 2018 Dr Maziar Divangahi highlighted one of his research groups recent publications (Kauffman et al.,) which aimed to determine if BCG vaccination can induce “long term” immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis..
5GFTB Highlights: Recombinant BCG-Esx1 can induce CD8 T cell responses
22nd February 2018 Dr Matthias I. Gröschel presented data at a plenary session of the 5th Global Forum on TB vaccines conference, on the development of a recombinant Mycobacterium bovis, Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) strain.
CD45.1 vs CD45.2 B6 mice more than an isoform difference.
19th February, 2018 Researchers determined differential murine immune response sand survival of CD45.1 and CD45.2 B6 mice infected with murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), influence A and ...
Potential therapeutic use of H. pylori for asthma
16th February, 2018 Helicobacter pylori is a bacteria that resides in the gut and is well known for its association with gastric ulcers, gastritis and gastric cancer. Recent studies highlight beneficial..
Local signals matters: implication for CD8 T cell function against Leishmania
15th February, 2018 In response to Leishmania infection CD8+ T cells have been shown to produce IFN-γ, an essential cytokine required for control of infection. However, studies have shown that ...
Influenza-specific lung resident CD8+ T cells maintain diverse TCR profiles
12th February, 2018 CD8+ T cell immunity has been shown to induce cross-protective long lived immunity against different influenza strains.