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Unravelling the complexities of the immune system with AI
AI is helping to broaden our understanding of the immune system, including how it responds to and stores information on external pathogens and diseases....
Exploring the role of mitochondria in immune systems
Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum have revealed new insights into the function of mitochondria in the nervous and immune systems.
Mitochondria are known primarily as the...
Severe COVID-19 symptoms lead to long-term immune damage
Patients who experienced severe COVID-19 symptoms are likely to suffer long-term effects on their immune system, according to research from Linköping University.
A study conducted...
How the immune system can help detect biliary duct cancer
New research into the immune system could pave the way for the early detection of biliary duct cancer.
Biliary duct cancer is one of the...
Training the immune system to fight infections
A new discovery has shown that the immune system can be trained to fight infections.
A new report from UCLA scientists shows the discovery of...
Stem cell therapy could reduce AIDS virus and boost immunity
A groundbreaking study has uncovered a special stem cell that can reduce the amount of virus causing AIDS and boost the body’s antiviral immunity...
A better understanding of how T cells function
A team of researchers has made steps towards better understanding how T cells function – by using their antigen like receptors like sticky fingers.
T...
AI model helps researchers understand immune system defence
Researchers have used an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to predict which key of the immune system opens the locks of coronavirus, to understand the...
Research shows long-COVID is linked to alteration in immune system
New research has demonstrated a link between the development of long-COVID in patients and an alteration in their immune system.
The team of scientists at...
Variability in T cells response to COVID-19 could offer clues to immunity
New research has uncovered clues to COVID-19 immunity by looking at how T cells respond to the virus.
A team of researchers from La Jolla...
People with some COVID-19 immunity may still transmit virus
A new study has found that a past coronavirus infection provides some immunity for at least five months, but the virus still may be...
Study shows different immune response in cancer patients to COVID-19
Cancer patients have shown different responses to the COVID-19 virus depending on the type of cancer they have.
In a study, carried out by Cancer...
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine shows protection against new COVID-19 strains
Results from a new study have shown that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine shows protection against two new mutant strains of coronavirus.
In an in vitro study...
COVID-19 immunity could last eight months, says research
New research has suggested that immunity to COVID-19 could last for up to eight months following infection.
The findings, which were based on blood samples...
New study shows Lyme disease alters immune system
A new study has shown that the bacteria that causes Lyme disease alters the immune system, causing it to attack the healthy cells in...
Six months immunity following COVID-19 infection, say researchers
Immunity can last for up to six months following a COVID-19 infection, a new study has shown.
As part of a collaboration between the University...
Care homes to be tested for COVID-19 immune response
Thousands of care home staff and residents in the UK are to have their immune response to COVID-19 tested as part of an expansion...
Next-generation immunotherapy against cancer enters clinical trials
Scientists have developed a new experimental drug that aims to use the body’s immune system in a response against cancer, which is now entering...
Understanding rare autoinflammatory conditions during awareness month
September marks World Autoinflammatory Awareness Month – a time for organisations, patients, carers, and families to raise the profile of these rare and complex...
Successful treatment of patients with the autoimmune disease Lupus
A team of researchers have successfully treated two patients with the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus for the first time.
The team from Charité -...