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Brain cancer patients may benefit from treatment to boost white blood cells
Blocking immune suppressor cells in mice with glioblastoma improved survival.
Dry eye disease alters how the eye’s cornea heals itself after injury
Mouse study IDs gene and proteins that could be targeted for therapy.
Study explains what makes mRNA vaccines so effective against COVID-19
Shots trigger exceptional antibody response by activating key helper immune cells.
Immune system protein may defend against deadly necrotizing enterocolitis in infants
Findings may lead to new therapies for necrotizing enterocolitis.
Delaying lung cancer surgery increase the risk of recurrence and mortality
Patients who undergo operation within 12 weeks of diagnosis fare better.
Fungus found in foods can infect sites of intestinal damage, study
Foodborne fungus impairs intestinal wound healing in Crohn’s disease.
A novel form of Alzheimer’s protein discovered
Discovery could lead to better diagnostics, speed efforts to find treatment.
How brain neurons influence choices?
The effort could aid the study of addiction, eating disorders, other neuropsychiatric conditions that involve faulty decision-making.
Scientists identified two antibodies that protect against influenza B virus strains
Findings point the way to developing a broad-spectrum flu drug,
The immune system affects the mind and body
Immune cells produce molecule that influences vigilance, alertness in mice.
Boosting immunity could be a potential treatment strategy for COVID-19
Scientists find weakened, rather than hyperactive, immunity in response to the virus.