Modified immune cells could be a long-term treatment for type 1 diabetes
Patients with type 1 diabetes currently need daily injections of insulin to manage the disease.
Tag: immune system
Human immune response against COVID-19 mapped for the first time
This could pave the way towards a cure.
How to boost the immune system against coronavirus
Self-care is more important than ever during the COVID-19 outbreak.
For the Nth time – measles is bad. Here’s why…
With the global trend of vaccine hesitancy, skeptical parents are refusing to get their children vaccinated due to false concerns ...
Immune system could be altered for years after a wildfire
Tiny particles penetrate into the lungs and the bloodstream
Early exposure to livestock might boost babies’ immune systems
Too clean is not necessarily a good thing.
Scientists might have cured “bubble boy disease” with gene therapy
A rare genetic disorder that deactivates the immune system of baby boys may have been cured.
Myth busted: strenuous exercise does not suppress immune system
Exercising is almost never bad for you.
Dormant, berserk antibodies could hold the key for HIV vaccine
Their nature makes them ideal against pathogens that hide from immune cells, such as HIV.
How Ancestry Shapes Our Immune Cells
The body's defense systems are impressive.
Bad news for cancer cells — your immune system immunity has been revoked
Scientists discovered how cancerous cells hide from immune system -- and how to make them targets again.
Chinese scientists prepare for first human CRISPR gene-editing trial
The trial will alter T cells in an attempt to treat lung cancer patients.
Getting multiple tattoos can boost your immune system
If you've always wanted a tattoo but never quite got around to it, now you have the perfect excuse: a ...
Discarded Thymus glands offer new hope for people with autoimmune disease
The thymus is one of those under appreciated organs you just don’t hear much about. Sitting in your chest, just ...
Men and women feel pain differently, on a biological level
A breakthrough research found that male and female mice use different cells to signal pain. This could explain why both ...
Tattoo removal could be as easy and painless as putting on a cream
Alec Falkenham, a 27-year-old PhD student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, has invented a special cream that will wipe out ...
Nut allergy cured in 80% of children participating in probiotic clinical trial
Australian scientists have cured nut allergy in 80% of the children taking part in a probiotic clinical trial. These children's ...
Resetting the immune system back 500 million years
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE) re-activated the expression of an ancient gene in mice. To ...