In a recent paper, a group of researchers have discovered a particular immunological response to the Epstein-Barr virus which may be a potential target for vaccine development...
January 2023
Novel insights into the treatment of lupus
In a mouse model of SLE, researchers have now learned that inhibiting an iron absorption receptor lowers disease pathology and boosts the activity of regulatory T cells that fight inflammation...
COVID-19 and the innate immune system – long term effects
According to a new study, immune cells like dendritic cells, which are essential for the immune system's activation, recover more slowly the more serious the COVID-19 infection is...
Immune response diversity driven by B cells
Researchers have just published a report that describes the event in detail and hypothesises that high-affinity B cells, which in the early stages displace inferior B cells, are what cause a reversal in late-stage germinal centres...
Understanding gut inflammation using caterpillars
Recently, researchers began working to develop non-mammalian alternatives that could reduce the number of rodents used in biomedical research and one that could also lower costs and accelerate results. These researchers decided to make use of caterpillars...
Vaccines and respiratory viruses
Vaccinations that offer long-lasting protection against influenza, coronaviruses, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have been challenging to create; recent research has now investigated the problems and outlined alternatives to better vaccines...
Insights into the mechanism lung cancers use to evade the immune system
In a recent study, a group of researchers revealed a protein that is frequently present in lung cancer cells at high levels and that regulates a crucial immunosuppressive pathway that enables lung tumours to avoid immune response...
Newly discovered IFN-γ role in Metabolic reprogramming to support Tumor Evasion
In a recent publication, Researcher have found a new role of IFN- γ in supporting Tumor cells to form a Suppressive Tumor Microenvironment (TME) via STAT3...
A vaccine for brain cancer?
In a recent study, scientists created live tumour cells using the genome editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, then modified them to secrete a substance that kills tumour cells...
COVID-19 vaccination may offer cancer protection
In a recent study, researchers have shown that recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine had a strong immune response, even in the presence of blood malignancy...