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Showing posts with label Immunology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Immunology. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Why do T cells attacking tumors become fatigued?

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Illustration Credit: Courtesy of Kyoto University Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : Accumulation of act...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Scientists develop molecules that may treat Crohn’s disease

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Broad scientists designed molecules (pictured in teal) that can bind CARD9 (white with red and blue), a protein linked to inflammatory bowel...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

“Recipe book” for reprogramming immune cells

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Filipe Pereira, professor of molecular medicine at Lund University Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lund University Scientific Frontline: "At ...

A bacterial toxin can counteract colorectal cancer growth

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Sun Nyunt Wai Photo Credit: Mattias Pettersson Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Discovery of Anti-Tumor Toxin : The pur...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

When a virus releases the immune brake: New evidence on the onset of multiple sclerosis

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Fluorescence microscope image of a mouse brain. The protective myelin layer (red) surrounds the nerve cell extensions. Cells infected with a...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

TB harnesses part of immune defence system to cause infection

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Photo Credit:  Thirdman Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) Subverts Immune Defense : The...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Stanford Medicine study identifies immune switch critical to autoimmunity, cancer

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Edgar Engleman, MD, professor of pathology Photo Credit: Courtesy of Stanford School of Medicine A single signaling pathway controls whether...

A platform to test new cancer treatments

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Differentiated hepatic cells growing in a flask re-gain the appearance of cells present in liver. Image Credit: © FAMOL, UNIGE Overcoming ac...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Immune system keeps mucosal fungi in check

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The yeast fungus Candida albicans (blue) breaks out of human immune cells (red) by forming long thread-like cells called hyphae. The part of...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

New Method Uncovers How Viruses Evade Immune Responses — and How We Might Fight Back

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Co-first authors Erin Doherty (left) and Jason Nomburg (right) Photo Credit: Courtesy of Innovative Genomics Institute Viruses and their hos...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Immune cells turn damage into repair

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Intestines one week after abdominal irradiation, showing proliferating epithelial cells (in brown). Image Credit: Julius Fischer / TUM  Pati...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Immunology: In-Depth Description

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated Immunology is the branch of biomedical science concerned with the structure, function, and...

Why the "gut brain" plays a central role for allergies

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This tissue section, taken from the intestine of a mouse unable to produce the neuropeptide VIP, clearly shows the striking frequency with w...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

LJI scientists discover how T cells transform to defend our organs

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The new study was led by Pandurangan Vijayanand, M.D., Ph.D., William K. Bowes Distinguished Professor at La Jolla Institute for Immunology ...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Customised cells to fight brain cancer

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Visualisation of cell death induced by CAR-T cells. A real-time imaging experiment (images taken at 0, 5 and 10 minutes) shows a CAR-T cell ...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

A cellular protein, FGD3, boosts breast cancer chemotherapy, immunotherapy

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The research team included, front row, from left: graduate student Junyao Zhu, biochemistry professor David Shapiro, and senior researcher C...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Combination of immunotherapy and targeted therapy improves survival for patients with advanced colorectal cancer

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Human colorectal cancer cells Image Credit:  National Cancer Institute A new study led by UCLA investigators found that combining zanzalinti...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Why women's brains face higher risk: scientists pinpoint X-chromosome gene behind MS and Alzheimer's

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated New research by UCLA Health has identified a sex-chromosome linked gene that drives inflam...

Checkpoint Inhibitor Promotes Tissue Repair

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The illustration shows the mechanism of action of immune checkpoint inhibitors: antibodies (yellow) activate T cells (blue) enabling them to...

A promising target for multiple sclerosis

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The image depicts a neuron with its axon insulated by segments of the myelin sheath. The visible degradation and fragmentation of that sheat...