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14: Study Shows
Low Risk Of Vaccinia Transfer After Smallpox Immunization
The
threat of bioterrorism has led to the recommendation to give immunity
support to health care workers and other first responders through
vaccination, but some worry about the side effects of smallpox
vaccination, which can harm children, pregnant women and people
with immune disorders or certain skin conditions...
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13: First
US Tuberculosis Vaccine Trial In 60 Years Begins A
new vaccine, made with several proteins from the bacterium that
causes tuberculosis (TB), will soon enter the first phase of human
safety testing. "This is the first recombinant tuberculosis
vaccine to reach human trials in the United States," says
NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Indeed, this is the first new TB vaccine to be tested in our country
in more than 60 years"...
Article
12: Fat Cells
Fight Disease, Purdue University Researchers Find Fat
cells, commonly blamed for a number of diseases, also may aid
in the body's defense against illnesses such as diabetes and cancer,
according to Purdue University researchers. Rather than contributing
to disease, fat cells, or adipocytes, normally function as part
of immunity and help control lipid accumulation, so they actually
may benefit human health, said Michael Spurlock...
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11: Researchers
Unlock Key Secrets Showing How Tumors Hide From Immune System
In
one of the biggest advances in understanding immunity to come
from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
in its 16-year history, researchers have unlocked at least part
of the mystery of how tumors flourish undetected by keeping their
presence a secret from sentries of the body's immunity system...
Article
10: Potential
For Pathogens To Evolve Missing From Emerging-disease Models
With
outbreaks of new and frightening infectious diseases such as SARS
and monkey pox jumping from the animal kingdom to humans we need
to support the immune system. Tracking the spread of these diseases
is vital to public health efforts to contain them...
Article
9: Linking The Immune
System With Lipid Metabolism A
team of researchers led by scientists at The Scripps Research
Institute has discovered a family of proteins that connect the
immune system to the body's lipids--the fat molecules that are
a major building block of the human body...
Article
8: Researchers
Find Plant Immune System's 'Take Two Aspirin' Gene, Offering Hope
For Disease Control Without Agricultural Pesticides Scientists
have found the gene that sends a signal through plant immune systems,
calling for support for the immune system and saying, in effect:
"Take two aspirin and call out the troops – we're under
attack!"...
Article
7: Understanding
How Lymph Nodes Respond To Infection May Redefine How Immunity
Functions Duke
University Medical Center researchers may have solved the mystery
of why lymph nodes swell when the body fights infection. Their
findings may redefine how the immune system functions and lead
to breakthroughs support for immunity...
Article 6: Enzyme
Revealed That Is Key To Fungus's Ability To Breach Immune System
A
newly discovered mechanism by which an infectious fungus evades
the immune system could lead to novel methods for immune system
support to fight the fungus and other disease-causing microbes...
Article
5: UBC Researcher
Discovers 'Control Room' That Regulates Immune Responses The
approximately 50 million people in the U.S. who suffer from autoimmune
diseases like HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and arthritis, may
soon be able to have immunity support to control their responses,
thanks to a breakthrough discovery by a researcher at the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada...
Article
4: Emory Scientists
Track Down Immune Sentinel Cells With Gene Gun Dendritic
cells monitor foreign substances in the body and communicate whether
they present a danger to the rest of the immune system. Emory
immunologists have developed a sensitive method to detect and
follow dendritic cells by marking them with a change in their
DNA, and have discovered that they are more numerous and longer
lived than other scientists had previously observed...
Article
3: SARS Will
Appear Again, As Will Other Viruses Incubating In 'Pandora's Boxes'
Around The World, UB Expert Predicts The
world can expect more SARS-like outbreaks in the near future due
to evolving cultural, environmental and economic conditions that
provide viruses with new opportunities to infect humans and we
need to further understand how to support immunity to deal with
these outbreaks...
Article
2: Technique Brings
Immune-based Therapies Closer To Reality Johns
Hopkins researchers have developed an inexpensive, reliable way
to make large quantities of targeted immune cells that one day
may provide support in the form of a life-saving defense against
cancers and viral infections...
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1: Immune Response
Depends On Key Molecule, According To New Study Scientists
at University Health Network's Advanced Medical Discovery Institute
(AMDI)/Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI) have shown that a molecule
called caspase-8 plays a key role in the immune response, by controlling
how T-cells are activated to respond to infections...
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