Immunology

UT Southwestern Receives Continued Funding from NIH for Participation in Inner City Asthma...

Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center Newswise — UT Southwestern Medical Center is among 10 institutions selected by the National Institutes of Health to share $56 million over five years as part of the Inner City Asthma...

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Immunology Expert at Children's Hospital Receives American Philosophical Society Prize for...

Posted on: Monday, 23 November 2009, 11:20 CST --Organization for 'Promoting Useful Knowledge' Honors Dr. Jordan Orange-- A pediatric immunologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has received a prestigious annual...

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Stem Cells That “Fool” Immune System May Provide Vaccination for Cancer

Written By: Carolyn Pennington Drs. Bei Liu and Zihai Li discuss lab results. Photo by Chris DeFrancesco Health Center researchers in collaboration with scientists from China have revealed the potential for human stem cells to...

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Bezos Family Pledges $10M to the “Hutch” for Next-Generation Cancer Therapies

The parents of Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos have pledged a $10 million donation to the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with an eye toward creating new therapies that trigger the immune system to...

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Cytheris Announces Initiation of NCI/NIH-Sponsored Phase I/IIa Clinical Study of Tumor...

rhabdomyosarcoma, neuroblastoma, synovial cell sarcoma, desmoplastic small round cell tumor, undifferentiated sarcoma, and embryonal sarcoma. The trial, "A Pilot Study of Tumor Vaccination and rhIL-7 Following Standard...

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New Type Of Immune Cells Discovered That Regulate Inflammation In Chronic Diseases

Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM) of Technische Universität München have discovered a new type of immune cells - the Th22 cells - which can protect the body against...

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Seasonal Flu Vaccine May Cut Swine Flu Risk

Researchers Say Seasonal Flu Provides Some Cross-Immunity Against H1N1 Swine Flu By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Health News Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD Nov. 20, 2009 -- People who got last year's seasonal flu vaccine are at lower...

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Discovery of new type of immune cells regulating inflammation in chronic diseases

EUREKALERT Contact: Sven Winkler presse@helmholtz-muenchen.de Helmholtz Zentrum Mnchen - German Research Center for Environmental Health Th22 cells as milestone of immunological research This release is available in German. In...

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Andalusian scientists study plant compounds to unmask latent HIV virus

Researchers from the University of Cadiz and the University of Cordoba study different plant substances to "awaken” the latent HIV-1 virus, immune to the current therapy, and to obtain more effective ...

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Moreover Public: Medical News: Researchers Discover Antibody Receptor Identity, Propose Renaming...

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have uncovered the genetic identity of a cellular receptor for the immune system's first-response antibody, a discovery that sheds new light on infection control and...

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