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Tag: immunology
Successful immunotherapy requires a body-wide response, say Stanford researchers
Harnessing a patient's immune system to tackle tumors seems like a no-brainer. Why wouldn't we avail ourselves of such a natural, already-in-the-trenches, weapon? And much …
Exploring the promise and challenges of cancer immunotherapy
The immune system is primed to protect the body from outside invaders, like viruses and bacteria. But can the immune system also be trained to …
Faulty DNA repair makes for old, crotchety immune cells; triggers inflammatory disease
I recently wrote an article for our magazine, Stanford Medicine, about the disturbing tendency of our immune systems, as the years go by, to get stuck …
On genetics, immunology and autism: A Q&A with Stanford’s Theo Palmer
Stanford researcher Theo Palmer, PhD, has long sought to understand how genetic and environmental factors shape brain function. His team is investigating a genetic …
Iron nanoparticles prompt immune system to attack cancer, Stanford researchers find
Recently, a team of Stanford researchers was testing a new way to fight cancer when something strange happened. The team, led by pediatric radiologist Heike …
Vitamin A byproduct helps combat colorectal cancer in mice and humans
When foreign invaders like bacteria end up in the intestines, the immune system gears up to squelch them. Oftentimes, inflammation — the release of chemicals …
Stanford researchers develop a new target for immunotherapy: sugars
Cancer immunotherapies have been big news in the past few years, particularly after former President Jimmy Carter’s melanoma was successfully treated with one such immune-stimulating …
Stanford Medicine to join $250 million Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
The field of cancer immunotherapy, which uses the body's own defenses — the immune system — to battle tumor cells is at an "inflection point," …
Unmasked: molecular mechanism of rheumatoid arthritis revealed
In a new study in Science Translational Medicine, Stanford rheumatologist and immunologist Connie Weyand, MD, and her colleagues have figured out what sparks the aberrant activation …
Resurrected drug fights multiple viruses
Virus are elusive foes. It seems like every year there’s a new one in the news – Ebola recently and now Zika – not to …
Stanford alumnus writes children’s book to inspire next generation of curious minds
Soon there will be a new superhero children’s book available, but these superheroes aren’t from Marvel comics. The book, Rose’s Superhero Birthday: An Immune Cell …
Stanford scientists co-opt viral machinery to create medical delivery system
Stanford engineering researcher James Swartz, PhD, and his colleagues have remodeled a hepatitis B virus to turn it into a microscopic taxi for medical therapies. The …
Adult humans harbor lots of risky autoreactive immune cells, study finds
If a new study published in Immunity is on the mark, the question immunologists may start asking themselves will be not "Why do some people …
Not immune from the charms of the immune system
Welcome to Biomed Bites, a weekly feature that introduces readers to some of Stanford’s most innovative researchers. Once upon a time, a researcher named Holden …
Frenemies: Chronic cytomegalovirus infection boosts flu vaccination efficacy (IF you’re young)
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." This phrase, or at least the thinking it embodies, is at least 2,400 years old. So, there …