Immunotherapie and Immunology news
Natural Killer Cells (NK Cells) are a unique subset of immune cells that play an essential role in maintaining a healthy immune system. As lymphocytes in the innate immune system, NK cells have the ability to identify and destroy infected cells, cancerous cells, and other abnormal cells in the body without prior activation or stimulation. […]
Read More »Stem cell transplant is a medical procedure that involves the transfer of stem cells from one person to another. This treatment is designed to replace damaged or diseased cells with healthy cells, leading to a new and improved life for patients. Stem cell transplant is also known as bone marrow transplant, which is a type […]
Read More »Most of us know someone affected by hearing loss, but we may not fully appreciate the hardships that lack of hearing can bring. Hearing loss can lead to isolation, frustration, and a debilitating ringing in the ears known as tinnitus. It is also closely correlated with dementia. The biotechnology company Frequency Therapeutics is seeking to […]
Read More »A stem cell transplant is when healthy stem cells are injected into a person’s bone marrow or blood. This can replenish stem cells when a person’s bone marrow has been damaged by chemotherapy, radiation, or a disease. When the healthy cells come from bone marrow, it is also known as a bone marrow transplant.
Read More »An HIV-positive woman who received a blood stem cell transplant to treat acute myeloid leukemia appears to have been cured of HIV. The stem cells, from umbilical cord blood, contained a gene variant that makes them resistant to HIV infection. The woman has been free of HIV for 14 months since the treatment. This finding […]
Read More »Cells in our body bristle with sugars known as glycans that other cells can recognize via specialized receptors. By attaching to and modifying proteins and fats, glycans influence how proteins fold, how cues are sent between cells, and other cell-to-cell interactions. As just one example of glycans’ importance, our blood types (A, B, O) depend […]
Read More »The chances of restoring fertility through sperm stem cell transplant are as random as a coin toss. But a team of scientists developed a new strategy that serves as a ‘weighted coin’ that can favorably rig the odds to achieve outcomes where fertility is successfully restored.
Read More »Alzheimer’s disease is the main cause of dementia and current therapeutic strategies cannot prevent, slow down or cure the pathology. The disease is characterized by memory loss, caused by the degeneration and death of neuronal cells in several regions of the brain, including the hippocampus. Researchers have identified a small molecule that can be used […]
Read More »A groundbreaking study found that stem cells reduce the amount of virus causing AIDS, boost the body’s antiviral immunity, and restore the gut’s lymphoid follicles damaged by HIV. It provided a roadmap for multi-pronged HIV eradication strategies.
Read More »Scientists are developing a promising approach for treating type 1 diabetes by using stem cells to create insulin-producing cells (called beta cells) that could replace nonfunctional pancreatic cells.
Read More »Biomedical engineering researchers developed a new cell classifier tool that takes a higher-resolution look at the life cycle of neuroepithelial stem cells, which led to the discovery and exploration of a new resting phase called Neural G0. This knowledge could help scientists to better understand glioma brain tumors and develop new methods of treatment.
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