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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Bees Have a New, Lifesaving ‘Vaccine’ to Make Them Immune to Pesti-Side Effects

There's been a lot of talk about vaccines these days, but not for bees. But a Cornell student has figured that since our most...

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...

Tick-Borne Infection Immune to Most Antibiotics May Be Blocked Using Special ‘Nanobodies’

Tiny molecules called nanobodies, which can be designed to mimic antibody structures and functions, may be the key to blocking a tick-borne bacterial infection...

First Human Trial of HIV Vaccine Produced Immune Response in 97% of Volunteers

A phase 1 clinical trial of an experimental vaccine primed the immune system using a unique approach in order to prevent HIV. The promising results,...

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.

Drinking Baking Soda Could Be Cheap, Safe Way to Combat Autoimmune Disease, Says Scientists

A daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scientists say. They have some of the...
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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...
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In Girl’s Last Hope, Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia

It is hard to believe, but last spring Emma, then 6, was near death from leukemia. She had relapsed twice after chemotherapy, and doctors...
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New Approach Could Treat MS, Other Autoimmune Diseases

Researchers trying to find a way to treat multiple sclerosis think they’ve come up with an approach that could not only help patients with...