The Immune System – News and Features

In this opinion piece, Francois Rieger discusses why reverse mergers are the way forward for advanced therapies.

A new study has found that a gene variant that causes a flush reaction after alcohol consumption also increases inflammation and impacts circulation. This finding could explain why individuals carrying this gene variant also have an increased risk of developing a common type of heart disease.

A new cell signaling pathway that protects DNA during cell replication has been identified, which could be targeted to boost the potency of cancer therapeutics.

A researcher is one step closer to demonstrating the potential of a brain molecule called fractalkine to halt and even reverse the effects of multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases.

New research findings show in detail how self-reactive T cells – white blood cells that mistakenly attack healthy instead of infected cells, thereby causing an autoimmune or an inflammatory response – are held in check by regulatory T cells.

A dietary plant sugar found in seaweeds has been shown to increase the number of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and promote antitumor immunity, helping to suppress skin cancer growth.

The mechanism behind how the vagus nerve signals to the brain and body to regulate inflammation has been identified by researchers from The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research.

An anti-aging gene discovered in a population of centenarians can protect cells collected from patients with heart failure requiring cardiac transplantation.

Biomedical engineers at the University of Cincinnati say interstitial fluid, the watery fluid found between and around cells, tissues or organs in the body, could provide an excellent medium for early disease diagnosis or long-term health monitoring.

A recent study has found that a subset of taste cells called type II taste cells may play a key role in the body’s immune response to harmful oral microbes.