News • Promising biomarker found
Who will develop long Covid? It's in the blood
New research has found molecular signature differences in the blood of patients who fully recover from Covid-19 and those who develop long Covid.
Immune system
News • Understanding the role of sex hormones
Multiple sclerosis: Why are women affected more often?
Multiple sclerosis affects three women for every one man. French scientists are studying the role of the sex hormones in order to better understand this discrepancy.
News • Immunotherapy effectiveness
Sex differences in pancreatic cancer: researchers reveal possible explanation
For pancreatic cancer, the effect of immunotherapy is limited and differs between men and women. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now found a possible explanation for this sex difference.
News • Preventing EBV reactivation
Liver transplantation: Finding the "sweet spot" of immuno-suppression
Dutch physicians have developed a system to determine the right dose of immunosuppressive drugs for patients to receive a donor liver - to prevent the activation of the Epstein-Barr virus.
News • Specialized immune cells
γδ T cells carry potential for new cancer immunotherapies
Dutch scientists have discovered how specialized immune cells can detect and remove cancers that are ‘invisible’ to the conventional defense mechanisms of the immune system.
News • Anosmia
Loss of smell after Covid-19: Researchers find key reason
After an infection with SARS-CoV-2, some people fail to recover their sense of smell. US researchers took a closer look at the olfactory nerve cells to find the reason for Covid-19-induced anosmia.
News • First on site, but short-lived
New insights into immune defence may explain Covid-19 reinfections
A new study has found that antibodies produced in the nose decline nine months after Covid-19 infection, while antibodies found in the blood last at least a year.
News • T cell visualization
Whole body scan shows complexity of immunotherapy response
Dutch scientists have performed whole-body PET scans using a radioactively labeled antibody tracer against immune cells, to predict the effect of treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
News • Environmental medicine
Study shows how air pollution eats away at the immune system
The diminished power of the immune system in older adults is usually blamed on the aging process. But a new study shows that decades of particulate air pollution also take a toll.
News • After blood stem cell transplantation
How the immune system "reboots" in MS patients
Blood stem cell transplantation is a radical but highly effective therapy for multiple sclerosis. A study examined how the treatment curbs the disease and how the immune system regenerates afterwards.
News • Immune systems timulation
Using senescent cells as anti-cancer vaccines
Researchers from Barcelona report that vaccination with senescent cells shows promise in experimental models of melanoma and pancreatic cancer.
News • Answer to SARS-CoV-2 mutations
One step closer to 'variant-proof' Covid-19 vaccine
A vaccine design approach that could protect against new variants of SARS-CoV-2 but also potentially protects against other coronaviruses is one step closer to reality as a result of new research.
News • SARS-Cov-2 case study
Does time of day matter for Covid-19 vaccination? Probably not, study finds
A study in Japan finds antibody response to the Moderna Covid-19 mRNA vaccine does not vary depending on the time of day when the dose was received.
News • Neuroinflammation research
Exploring the long-term consequences of infections
Researchers mapped in detail how the immune system acts against pathogens invading the brain. This sheds new light on host-pathogen interactions and the long-term consequences of brain infections.
News • Disrupted neurogenesis
Covid-19 delirium: new study reveals possible brain mechanisms
Researchers have shown that when brain cells are directly exposed to blood taken from Covid-19 patients with delirium, there is an increase in cell death and a decrease in the generation of new brain cells.
News • Research presented at ESC 2022
Autoimmune disorders increase risk of cardiovascular disease
A large epidemiological study shows that patients with an autoimmune disorder have a substantially higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease than individuals without autoimmune disease.
News • Underrated helper
T-cells: key for a new type of Covid-19 vaccine?
Researchers propose a new Covid-19 vaccine that specifically instructs the immune system to produce T-cells rather than antibodies - a promising alternative for people with a weakened immune system.
News • Identification of treatment barriers
Immunotherapy: The right environment for fighting cancer
Cancer immunotherapy is a successful treatment form in oncology, but it doesn't work for every patient. One problem may be the lack of a specific type of immune cell in the tumor, researchers found.
News • Coronavirus research
How the Omicron variant dodges the immune system
By comparing the neutralisation capacity induced by the different variants of SARS-CoV-2, a team from Geneva reveals the exceptional capacity of Omicron to evade our immunity.
News • Nanochannels
Groundbreaking: Nanofluidic scattering microscopy
To develop new drugs, detailed knowledge about nature’s smallest biological building blocks is required. A new microscopy technique that allows proteins, DNA and other tiny biological particles to be studied in their natural state.
News • Immunity?
A path to better rabies vaccine design
Scientists shared one of the first high-resolution looks at the rabies virus glycoprotein in its vulnerable 'trimeric' form, revealing potential vaccine targets.
News • Breakthrough with the help of computer-based protein design
Immune diseases: Advancing the development of novel drugs
Latest developments in computational protein design enable the simulation of sequence and structural changes in proteins for creating novel agents in human medicine.
News • Protein malformation
Covid-19: immune reaction may cause amyloid generation
In patients with serious and long-term Covid-19, disturbed blood coagulation is often observed. Now, Swedish researchers found a connection between harmful amyloid production and Covid-19 symptoms.
News • Hypoxia
Stopping lung damage before it turns deadly
Scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology discover new drug target for severe asthma and fibrosis.
News • Histotripsy
Tumors partially destroyed with ultrasound don't come back
Noninvasive sound technology breaks down liver tumors in rats, kills cancer cells and spurs the immune system to prevent further spread.
