Immunology – Page 639

Study sheds light on immune cells’ ability to collectively migrate through complex environments

When fighting disease, our immune cells need to reach their target quickly. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) now discovered that immune cells actively generate their own guidance system to navigate through complex environments. This challenges earlier notions about these movements. The researchers’ findings, published in the journal Science Immunology, enhance… Continue reading Study sheds light on immune cells’ ability to collectively migrate through complex environments

International consortium to study link between RSV infection and chronic respiratory tract diseases

UMC Utrecht will lead an international consortium that will try to answer a key question that’s in the mind of many pediatricians, infectiologists, pulmonologists and other health professionals: “Why are children that had an RSV infection in early childhood at increased risk of developing asthma later in life?” The project – which will run for… Continue reading International consortium to study link between RSV infection and chronic respiratory tract diseases

Immune cells shape their own path

Researchers have discovered immune cells actively generate their own guidance system to navigate through complex environments . This challenges earlier notions about these movements . The findings enhance our knowledge of the immune system and offer potential new approaches to improve human immune response .

Study could help explain why certain brain tumors don’t respond well to immunotherapy

A study sheds new light on why tumors that have spread to the brain from other parts of the body respond to immunotherapy while glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer that originates in the brain, does not.