Immunology in Biological News

The right messenger for a healthy immune response

... Researchers from the Molecular immunology group at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection ... issue of the scientific magazine Journal of immunology . During an infection, immune cells produce ... says Siegfried Wei, leader of the Molecular immunology group at the HZI. His research assistant, the ...

UTSA, Health Science Center collaborate with Merck & Co. to develop chlamydia vaccine

... the outstanding research in microbiology and immunology occurring at UTSA and the Health Science Center, ... Zhong, M.D., Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology from the Health Science Center, Bernard Arulanandam, Ph.D., M.B.A., professor of microbiology and immunology in UTSA's STCEID and Department of Biology, and ...

Wistar scientists find key to keeping killer T cells in prime shape for fighting infection, cancer

... a study published online November 30 in Nature immunology , the researchers describe their discovery of ... Wherry, Ph.D., an assistant professor in Wistar's immunology Program. Wherry had recently been involved in ... as well. In the newest report in Nature immunology , Wherry and colleagues compared the global ...

LIAI launches new division to look at novel approaches to heart disease and inflammation

... at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & immunology (LIAI) have their way, the body's immune system ... "Its creation puts us in a very select group of immunology institutions worldwide that are exploring new ... in recruiting Klaus to lead a program to bridge immunology to cardiovascular disease." In the 1980s, Ley ...

American Society for Microbiology honors Steven A. Rosenberg

... Laboratories Award in Clinical and Diagnostic immunology is presented to Steven A. Rosenberg, Chief of ... distinguished scientist in clinical or diagnostic immunology for outstanding contributions. Dr. Rosenberg ... associated antigens used in studies of cancer immunology and immunotherapy, identification of tumor ...

NIH selects LIAI for major study on allergy molecular causes and possible treatments

... conducted by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & immunology (LIAI) under a $5 million federal contract. The ... organization and one of the worlds leading immunology research centers, will partner on the study with ... partnership that directly connects the basic immunology science that LIAI is renowned for with the ...

Rheumatologists win $1.2M for arthritis research

... working in the UAB Division of Clinical immunology and Rheumatology each were awarded $400,000. ... said Carter, director of the Division of Clinical immunology and Rheumatology. The three projects that ... for the arthritis grants. UABs rheumatology and immunology laboratories are equipped to accelerate new ...

Study characterizes eczema patients most at risk for dangerous viral infections

... June 25 in the online version of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology , could help identify people at risk for serious complications of smallpox ... Leung, MD, PhD, Edelstein Family Chair of Pediatric Allergy and Clinical immunology at National Jewish Health. "Our study is the largest and first in the ...

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona researchers first to clone mice in Spain

... Researchers at the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and immunology at Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB) are the first to have cloned ... Santal and Elena Ibez from the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and immunology at UAB. In order to clone the animals, researchers collected oocytes ...

Team identifies a molecular switch linking infectious disease and depression

... inflammation. Their study, just published online in the Journal of immunology , is the first to identify IDO (indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase) as a ... the two fields of study, Kelley and Dantzer launched the Integrative immunology and Behavior program at Illinois. It supports interdisciplinary research ...

HIV adapts to 'escape' immune response

... and identify new drug targets that work against an ever-changing HIV immunology landscape, said Philip Goulder, M.D., a professor of immunology at the University of Oxford and the study's senior author. ...

La Jolla Institute signs exclusive license agreement with Medimmune on major asthma discovery

... asthma discovery by a researcher at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & immunology has been licensed by MedImmune, a leading innovation-focused biotechnology ... a nonprofit biomedical research institute and international leader in immunology research. Kronenberg added that such licensing arrangements are a ...

Peering inside the skull of a mouse to solve meningitis mystery

... NYU researchers, Michael L. Dustin, Ph.D., the Irene Diamond Professor of immunology and Professor of Pathology at NYU School of Medicine, and Jiyun V. Kim, ... and Kim collaborated with Dorian McGavern, Ph.D., Associate Professor of immunology and Silvia Kang, Ph.D., at Scripps Research Institute, who provided ...

Feed a cold, feed a fever: Research shows calorie cut makes it harder to fight flu

... flu virus, according to research by Michigan State University nutritional immunology professor Elizabeth Gardner. In a study published in the November issue ... immune function during caloric restriction. Her research in nutritional immunology will lead to a better understanding of how a diet affects the immune ...

Potential new drug target to fight tuberculosis identified

... co-senior author Dr. Sabine Ehrt, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. " M. tuberculosis does not depend on ... of Microbiology. He is also chairman of the Department of Microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell. Drs. Ehrt and Nathan co-supervised Dr. Vandal in ...

Nixing immaturity in red blood cells

... our thinking on autophagy, said Dr. Jin Wang, assistant professor of immunology at BCM and senior author of the report. During autophagy, the cell forms ... the muscle, brain and pancreas, said Dr. Min Chen, assistant professor of immunology at BCM and a corresponding author of this work. The next step is to ...

DNA variations signal lupus risk

... Kimberly, M.D., a professor of medicine in the UAB Division of Clinical immunology and Rheumatology and co-author on the new study. The findings are ... Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine in the UAB Division of Clinical immunology and Rheumatology and co-author on the study. Using the data from the ...

2 genes are important key to regulating immune response

... health," explains study senior researcher Dr. Xiaojing Ma, Professor of immunology and Microbiology in the Departments of Microbiology and immunology and Pediatrics at Weill Cornell. "Too much IL-10 can leave the body more ...

Profound immune system discovery opens door to halting destruction of lupus

... the LRI, this project would have stoppedand a fundamental discovery in immunology would not have happened, Dr. Lemke said. Major Implications In ... its power, said William E. Paul, MD, chief of the Laboratory of immunology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease-National ...

Australian researchers develop treatment to treat obesity

... their chances of recovery. The team of researchers from the Centre for immunology at St Vincents Hospital and the University of New South Wales and the ... a treatment for severe obesity. Professor Sam Breit at the Centre for immunology originally cloned the MIC-1 gene. He discovered that blood levels of MIC-1 ...

Gene, stem cell therapy only needs to be 50 percent effective to create a healthy heart

... said Dongsheng Duan, an associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the MU School of Medicine. More importantly, it acts like a normal ... said Brian Bostick, a doctoral student in molecular microbiology and immunology and the first author of the study. Were also looking at this as a possible ...

Flu vaccine in painless skin patches under development at Emory, Georgia Tech with NIH grants

... production time," says Richard Compans, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology in the Emory School of Medicine. "Potentially, individuals could ... of Georgia, to establish the Emory/UGA Influenza Pathogenesis and immunology Research Center, for which Dr. Compans is principal investigator. The ...

Depression, aging, and proteins made by a virus may all play role in heart disease

... and Immunity. Ronald Glaser, a professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics at Ohio State University , said, To me, this suggests ... of pathology, Marshall Williams, a professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics, and Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, a professor of psychiatry ...

Bleeding, not inflammation, is major cause of early lung infection death

... worldwide, said Jian-Dong Li, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Microbiology & immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center and an author on the ... early on, said Jae Hyang Lim, Ph.D., DVM, instructor in Microbiology & immunology at the Medical Center and first author on the paper. The medical ...

Pitt researchers find promising candidate protein for cancer prevention vaccines

... to a cancer cell line that overproduced it, explained senior author Olivera Finn, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of immunology at the Pitt School of Medicine. The results are reported this week in the online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . ...

La Jolla Institute discovers novel tumor suppressor

... SAN DIEGO (August 3, 2009) La Jolla Institute for Allergy & immunology researchers studying an enzyme believed to play a role in allergy onset, instead have discovered its previously unknown role as a tumor suppressor ...

Study links virus to some cases of common skin cancer

... a role in causing some cases of squamous cell carcinoma," says principal investigator Amanda E. Toland, assistant professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics and a researcher with the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research ...

Common allergy drug reduces obesity and diabetes in mice

... However, a group of papers appearing in Nature Medicine , two of which are from Harvard Medical School researchers, have linked type 2 diabetes with immunology in a way that might persuade leading researchers to start viewing them as siblings. In the first study, researchers used two common ...

When children have breathing problems

... La Plata in Argentina. The results have been published in several internationally-respected journals, including the Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology and Toxicology . The UFZ researchers, who work in the Division of Health Research in Leipzig, concentrated on three courses of analysis: ...

Elsevier announces 2008 journal impact factor highlights

... in particular Biomaterials ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/biomaterials ) (increasing yearly since 2003) and The Journal of Allergy and Clinical immunology ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jaci ) which has shown consistent growth over the past five years. Glen Campbell, Senior Vice President of U.S. ...

Pushmi-pullyu of B-cell development discovered

... an antibody-producing B cell, only a small proportion of stem cells mature into those important immune-system cells. James Hagman, PhD, Professor of immunology at National Jewish Health and his colleagues have identified two "molecular motors" that work in opposing directions to control the development of B ...

UTSA wins San Antonio Area Foundation grant to further chlamydia research

... the Ph.D. program in cellular and molecular biology (CMB) at UTSA in 2002. Working alongside Bernard Arulanandam, professor of microbiology and immunology in UTSA's Department of Biology, Murthy has conducted significant chlamydia research, resulting in findings that have been presented both nationally ...

Antibiotics take toll on beneficial microbes in gut

... "we may be doing long-term damage to our close friends," says Young, assistant professor in the departments of internal medicine and microbiology and immunology at the U-M Medical School. Study details Young and his colleagues used a culture-independent technique, using sequence analysis of 16S ...

Research uncovers clues to virus-cancer link

... in AIDS patients. In an April article published in the journal PLoS Pathogens , Dirk Dittmer, Ph.D. associate professor of microbiology and immunology at UNC's School of Medicine, demonstrated that the Kaposi sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is not only present in every tumor cell, but that the ...

Major breakthrough in early detection and prevention of AMD

... CCR3 is expressed in the CNV of AMD patients, they could further understand AMD disease progression," said Dr. Grace L. Shen, director of the ocular immunology and inflammation program at the National Eye Institute. Ambati's research team was able to detect these same abnormal blood vessels in the living ...

Dioxins in food chain linked to breastfeeding ills

... attention in the laboratory, said corresponding author B. Paige Lawrence, Ph.D., associate professor of Environment Medicine and of Microbiology and immunology at URMC. "Estimates are that three to six million mothers worldwide are either unable to initiate breastfeeding or are unable to produce enough ...

American Society for Microbiology honors James W. Snyder

... of Medicine. This award recognizes a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM) or the American Board of Medical Laboratory immunology (ABMLI) for outstanding contributions to the professional recognition of clinical microbiologists and/or immunologists. Dr. Snyder is honored for ...

Scientists uncover mode of action of enzyme linked with several types of cancer

... This release is available in French . Scientists at the Institute for Research in immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Universit de Montral have discovered a key mechanism used by cells to efficiently distribute chromosomes to new cells during ...

Partnership to accelerate Trudeau Institute discoveries to patient care

... bench to the patient's bedside." "The Trudeau Institute is a gem, a place where world-class scientists are drawn to push the envelope of immunology research aimed at diseases affecting millions of people worldwide," said Michael Nazarko, executive director of HRI. "Forging strategic relationships ...

Enzyme involved in inflammatory bowel disease discovered at Penn State College of Medicine

... and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State College of Medicine, and Daniel Lottaz, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical immunology at the University of Bern, Switzerland, could potentially lead to therapies to help the half-a-million Americans affected by ulcerative colitis and ...