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Antigen presenting cells
Antigen presenting cells (APC) are a class of immune cells that mediate the immune response. APCs process foreign antigen and present the antigen to T cells, the immune cells with kill foreign cells. Several subsets of immune cells, including dendritic cells (DC) and macrophages are capable of serving as APCs.
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MAY 11, 2016
Immunology
B cells, which are mostly known for antibody production in the face of invading pathogens, provide another function in t
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 29, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Ebola infection and transmission caused a huge international health crisis in 2015 in West Africa, the site of the large
...
APR 19, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers from Augusta University found that E. coli helps curb a sweet tooth. The group found that, in mice, administ
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
APR 18, 2016
Immunology
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease that revolves around the immune system’s error
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 11, 2016
Immunology
If you thought finding a needle in a haystack was hard, try maneuvering a T lymphocyte through the “three-dimensio
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 09, 2016
Videos
While humans share many similarities, we don't all have the same blood. Knowing your blood type is vital if you need a b
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAR 18, 2016
Immunology
How are macrophage immune cells activated during an inflammatory response when pathogens invade? Scientists thought they
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
FEB 06, 2016
Immunology
Herpes simplex 1 virus, the microscopic pathogen notoriously remembered for its production of painful and unappealing co
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 12, 2016
Immunology
Immune cells are not predestined to be either effector or memory cells, scientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion Insti
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 04, 2016
Immunology
The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway, discovered in 2008 to promote type 1 interferon production in respon
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 19, 2015
Immunology
Dendritic cells use phagocytosis to break up molecules from pathogens to present on their cell surface to warn other lym
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 14, 2015
Immunology
Studies have shown that early exposure to farm animals reduces the risk of children developing atopic diseases, but scie
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 02, 2015
Immunology
B-cell leukemia occurs in 80-85 percent of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a fast-growing cancer that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 07, 2015
Immunology
Scientists from the University of Freiburg published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine their findings of
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 29, 2015
Cancer
UC San Francisco scientists have developed a molecular “on switch” enabling tight control over the acti
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 13, 2015
Cancer
Three researchers won prestigious medical awards for a new approach to treating cancer and insights into how creatures d
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 13, 2015
Cancer
A team at the University of Pennsylvania reported that a multiple myeloma patient whose cancer had stopped respondi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 23, 2015
Cancer
Men with prostate cancer benefit from treatment with the pioneering drug olaparib - the first cancer drug to target inhe
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Immunology
A team at Rockefeller University tracked the appearance and disappearance of protein coats within the blood of mice infe
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 11, 2015
Cancer
A new study of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a blood cancer that primarily affects young children, has revealed th
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
FEB 27, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Genetically engineered T memory stem cells (Tscm) can last more than 12 years in patients' bodies, and can continually g
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
FEB 25, 2015
Microbiology
Up to one million people -- mainly pregnant woman and young children -- are killed each year by the Plasmodium falciparu
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke