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Improving European Healthcare Through Cell-Based Interceptive Medicine

September 9, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — Hundreds of innovators, research pioneers, clinicians, industry leaders and policy makers from all around Europe are united by a vision of how to revolutionize healthcare. In two...

Unconventional T Cells in Severe COVID-19 Patients Could Predict Disease Outcome

September 6, 2020
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New York, NY — Researchers in France have discovered that patients suffering from severe COVID-19 show changes in a class of immune cells known as unconventional T cells. The study, published Sept....

Heart Attack Damage Reduced by Shielded Stem Cells

August 19, 2020
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Houston, TX — Bioengineers and surgeons from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have shown that shielding stem cells with a novel biomaterial improves the cells’ ability to...

Researchers Develop New Mouse Model for Sars-Cov-2

August 5, 2020
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New York, NY — Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine have developed a new mouse model to study SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease and to accelerate testing of novel treatments and vaccines...

Re-Engineering Antibodies for COVID-19

July 31, 2020
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Austin, TX — With millions of COVID-19 cases reported across the globe, people are turning to antibody tests to find out whether they have been exposed to the coronavirus that causes the disease. But...

Computational Gene Study Suggests New Pathway for COVID-19 Inflammatory Response

July 29, 2020
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Oak Ridge, TN — Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation’s fastest supercomputer point to gene expression patterns that may explain the runaway symptoms produced...

COVID-19 Research: Anti-Viral Strategy With Double Effect

July 29, 2020
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Frankfurt, Germany — In the case of an infection, the SARS-CoV-2 virus must overcome various defence mechanisms of the human body, including its non-specific or innate immune defence. During this process,...

Neutralizing Antibodies Isolated From COVID-19 Patients May Suppress Virus

July 22, 2020
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New York, NY — Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have isolated antibodies from several COVID-19 patients that, to date, are among the most potent in neutralizing the SARS-CoV-2...

Scientists Discover Key Element of Strong Antibody Response to COVID-19, Offering Inspiration for Vaccine Design

July 15, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A team led by scientists at Scripps Research has discovered a common molecular feature found in many of the human antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The...

How Breast Cancer Cells Sneak Past Local Immune Defences

July 15, 2020
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Associate Professor Mikala Egeblad and her colleagues describe a newly understood way by which breast cancer cells sabotage a key player...

Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Safe, Generates Immune Response, Says Study

July 15, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — An investigational vaccine, mRNA-1273, designed to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was generally well tolerated and prompted neutralizing...

Even in the Worst COVID-19 Cases, the Body Launches Immune Cells to Fight Back

July 3, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A new study from researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) shows that even the sickest COVID-19 patients produce T cells...

B-Cell Protectors

July 1, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — Whenever a germ gets into the human body, the immune system usually responds immediately to fight off the enemy attacker. One of our defence system’s most important strategies...

Putting ‘Super’ in Natural Killer Cells

June 19, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and deleting a key gene, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have created natural killer cells — a...

‘Relaxed’ T Cells Critical to Immune Response

June 17, 2020
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Houston, TX — Like finding that needle in the haystack every time, your T cells manage what seems like an improbable task: quickly finding a few invaders among the many imposters in your body to trigger...

A Novel Mechanism That Triggers a Cellular Immune Response

June 12, 2020
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Houston, TX — Viruses and other disease-causing microbes influence the type of immune response their hosts will develop against them. In some cases, the predominant response involves antibodies, proteins...

Putting ‘Super’ in Natural Killer Cells

June 12, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and deleting a key gene, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have created natural killer cells — a...

Researchers Create New Type of COVID-19 Antibody Test

June 12, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues with many thousands of new infections reported each day, there is a need for widely applicable surveillance testing to gain a better understanding...

Immunodominant Epitopes Identified for Designing Peptide-Based Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2

June 10, 2020
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Ramat Gan, Israel — There are currently no licensed vaccines available for COVID-19. While several antiviral drugs have been tested, none has proved to be completely effective against the disease....

Immune Cells Multiply and Diversify in Mouse Lungs at Birth

June 3, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — An explosion in the number and types of immune cells in the lungs of newborn mice likely helps them adapt to breathing and protects them from infection, says a new study published June...

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