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Experimental Type 1 Diabetes Drug Shields Pancreas Cells from the Usual Crippling Immune System Attack
Scientists at Johns Hopkins say that an experimental antibody drug appears to prevent and reverse the onset of type 1 diabetes in mice—and often...
Scientists Discover a Small Strand of RNA to Be Key to Fighting Cancer With Our Immune System
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shown how a single, small strand of microRNA, known as let-7, governs the...
Scientists Use Sound to Destroy Half of Liver Tumors – and Boosted Immune Systems Cleared Away the Rest
Noninvasive sound technology developed at the University of Michigan breaks down liver tumors in rats, kills cancer cells, and spurs the immune system to...
Magnesium May Prime the Immune System to Fight Cancer and Infections
A simple mineral we all learned about in high school PE class could be the active ingredient in a new method of cancer treatment...
New Cancer Treatments May Be on The Horizon – Success in mRNA Vaccine Trials Use Patients’ Immune Systems
A personalized, mRNA vaccine, given to patients with particular kinds of aggressive cancers could leverage the immune system of the patient to kill the...
New Hope For Babies Born Without Immune System as Gene Therapy Breakthrough Looks Like Cure
An experimental form of gene therapy developed by a team of researchers from UCLA and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has successfully treated...
New Study Shows Garden Areas Improved the Immune Systems of Daycare Children in Only a Month
A study in Finland showed, for the first time, that the immune system of children ages 3-5 improved when forest undergrowth, lawns, and planter...
After Breakthrough Trials, Alzheimer’s Vaccine That Uses the Body’s Immune System May Soon Be Tested on Humans
After the Alzheimer’s vaccine produced surprisingly good results in mice, researchers are now looking for funding to test the vaccine on humans.
Programming the Immune System to Kill Any Cancer – Trials Start in 2014
Training our immune systems to fight cancer has been an appealing prospect among scientists for decades.
Stanford researchers are on track to begin human trials...
New Cancer Treatment Destroys Non Targeted Tumors Using Immune System
For more than a century, scientists have been attempting to harness the immune system to fight cancer -- trying to get the antibodies and...
Scientists Retrain An Immune System to Kill Cancer, Leukemia is Now Gone
A year ago, when chemotherapy stopped working against his leukemia and he had nothing to lose, William Ludwig signed up to be the first...
Cheese Boosts Immune System of the Elderly
Eating cheese boosts the immune system of older people, according to a new study by scientists in Finland.
Researchers found that cheese can act as...
Cancer Vaccine Triggers Fierce Immune Response to Fight Malignant Brain Tumors in Human Patients
In a first-ever human clinical trial, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida successfully reprogrammed patients’ immune systems to fiercely attack...
Cancer Breakthrough Found to Boost Immune Cells Without Harmful Side-Effects By Directing Protein Cytokines
A new way to safely boost immune cells to fight cancer—avoiding harmful side-effects such as hair loss—has been developed.
Scientists at Virginia Tech devised the...
CAR T-Cell Therapy Sends Lupus into Remission for Patients, Using Specially-Armed Immune Cells
A decade ago, CAR T-cell therapy changed the face of cancer research and treatment. It's now been applied in a small trial to lupus...
Delicious Cancer Breakthrough: Pomegranates Found to Significantly Fuel Tumor-Fighting Immune Cells
A new study shows that a substance found in pomegranates significantly boosts the immune system to fight cancer—triggering a constant supply of endless rejuvenated...
Scientists Discover Genetic Cause of Lupus, a Chronic Autoimmune Disease
An international team of researchers has identified a cause of the autoimmune disease lupus within the DNA mutations of a gene that senses viral...
Doctors Say Cancer Patients Cured a Decade After Immune Cell Therapy at University of Pennsylvania
A 75-year-old California man has, after ten years of observation, been declared free of cancer after an immune cell treatment wiped out his blood...
New Simple Therapy Offers Potentially Groundbreaking Treatment Option for ALS and Other Autoimmune Diseases
A man with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) had the advance of his disease slowed, and even halted altogether, thanks to a new trial that...
Marathoner Runner Stopped By Lupus is Racing Again Thanks to Amazing Treatment for Autoimmune Disorder
When a marathon runner was put out of action by lupus, a debilitating auto-immune disorder, an experimental trial got her back on track, and...