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Immune-mediated diseases
Immune-mediated disease, also called autoimmune diseases, describe medical indications resulting from immune cells attacking healthy tissue throughout the body. Immune cells are programmed to recognize foreign invaders, such as a bacteria, virus, or cancer, and eliminate them. In immune-mediated diseases, these immune cells act abnormally, mistaking normal cells as foreign.
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SEP 17, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) affects nearly half of all men aged 51 - 60 and 90 percent of men older than 80 years
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 31, 2016
Immunology
Replacing faulty stem cells in the bone marrow with a transplant is one way to treat some bone cancers, but the immune r
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 08, 2016
Immunology
Whether chronic or acute, patients with inflammatory nerve disorders are often out of luck for a quick diagnosis or accu
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 19, 2016
Immunology
The body’s cells proliferate continuously, depicted as a series of phases called the cell cycle. In a recent colla
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 18, 2016
Immunology
You probably won’t find a person who doesn’t agree that fruits and vegetables are “healthy.” Yet
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 04, 2016
Neuroscience
Rupture of small blood vessels in the brain can cause hemorrhagic stroke and brain microbleeds, and finding the fastest
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 24, 2016
Microbiology
People with anorexia nervosa have very different microbial communities living in their guts compared to healthy individu
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 04, 2016
Immunology
All food allergies are not created equal. In fact, researchers from the University of Southampton set out to prove just
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 19, 2016
Immunology
A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) shows how dangerous autoimmune responses, seen in
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
DEC 29, 2015
Immunology
The inflammatory response is vital for fighting off infections, but too much inflammation can damage the body tissues an
...
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
DEC 08, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
Sepsis is one of the most serious medical conditions that can scare even the best-trained doctors. When sepsis hits, thi
...
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 21, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the nervous system that disrupts the flow of information between the brain and t
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
MAY 09, 2015
Neuroscience
Images of soccer moms shuttling kids around in minivans could one day be as quaint as a Norman Rockwell painting. Concus
...
Written By:
Will Hector
APR 22, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Extracellular vesicles (membrane sacs secreted from cells) have sprung forth as valuable mediators facilitating cells' c
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 21, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Using the latest genome sequencing techniques, a research team led by scientists from UC San Francisco, Baylor College o
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 16, 2015
Immunology
About 15% of patients with Lyme disease develop peripheral and central nervous system involvement, often accompanied by
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 02, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
A collaborative study between researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Techno
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 20, 2015
Immunology
Culling vampire bat colonies to fight rabies in Latin America does little to slow the spread of the virus-and could even
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 10, 2015
Immunology
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY, have designed a new type of vaccine
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
JAN 09, 2015
Cancer
Cancer kills 8 million people worldwide every year, 14 million new cancer cases are diagnosed annually and finding a cur
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 29, 2014
Cancer
Penn Medicine and The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia were awarded a $12.1 million Specialized Programs of Research Exc
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 04, 2014
Health & Medicine
A collaboration between Netherlands-based arGEN-X -- a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on creating and
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider