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Published on August 28, 2024
Philanthropist couple Gary and Alya Michelson have announced a $120 million gift to establish the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy at UCLA’s new Research Park. The new institute will comprise two research entities each provided with $50 million for their launch. One will focus on the rapid development of…
Published on August 12, 2024
When it comes to studying and treating cancer, scientists and clinicians often think of applying two key areas of knowledge: the immune system and genomics. The combination of those fields—immunogenomics—is not quite a new field, but it is on the rise. Even in 2015, Robert Holt, PhD, scientific co-director of…
Published on August 12, 2024
When Sadia Haqnawaz went in for her 20-week scan, she heard words that no pregnant woman wants to hear. “It was quite quiet for a long time and the sonographer said that he’s having trouble looking at the scan because there’s no fluid, there’s no amniotic fluid. And as soon…
Published on June 5, 2024
Antibody therapies called bispecific T cell engagers (BTEs) have emerged as effective treatments for some blood cancers but have been more difficult to develop for solid tumors. While clinically successful, first-generation BTEs suffer a short half-life. Now, Wistar scientists have built upon bispecific T cell engagers (BTEs) technology to develop…
Published on May 23, 2024
Scientific advances driven by the COVID pandemic have the potential to transform personalized medicine, say researchers, who outline steps to fully realize this potential. They believe that innovations in biomedical science, big data and vaccines as a result of trying to tackle coronavirus infections could revolutionize medicine and improve population…
Published on May 10, 2024
The new AlphaFold 3 AI system for protein structure prediction has been released by Google DeepMind and its spinout Isomorphic, which is built around the system. According to the companies, the breakthrough system now shows at least a 50 percent improvement compared with existing prediction methods, and for some important…
Published on April 29, 2024
The Human Immunome Project, a global nonprofit scientific initiative, has released its plans to decode and model the human immune system by generating the world’s most diverse and largest immunological dataset to date. Understanding the complexities of the human immune system is essential for developing treatments against different diseases—including cancer,…
Published on April 17, 2024
A study led by University of Maryland researchers has identified genetic mutations associated with persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection that could help identify women at risk for cervical cancer. “We found certain genetic variants were associated with having high-risk HPV infections, while other variants and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes…
Published on February 12, 2024
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Published on January 31, 2024
New findings from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers showed that people who switched to a vegan or ketogenic diet showed rapid and distinct changes in their immune system. The small study, reported in the journal Nature Medicine, closely monitored the biological responses of people who sequentially ate vegan…
Published on December 20, 2023
Despite strong financial headwinds, venture capital (VC) firms continue to provide biotech startups with the critical cash they need to develop and scale their technology. Check out five of the most established VCs betting on life sciences companies. Biotech startups promise potentially groundbreaking solutions to major illnesses such as cancer,…
Published on December 20, 2023
Life is like the changing of seasons, each uniquely beautiful. Just as autumn leaves fall to the ground and make way for winter’s gentle snow, life has transformational cycles. The cycle of life continues through the changing seasons, like how the autumn winds strip the trees of their leaves and…
Published on December 15, 2023
Machine learning and structural biology company Atomic AI announced that it has created the first large language learning model that leverages chemical mapping data to optimize RNA therapeutic development by predicting the structure and function of RNA. The company details the development of its proprietary technology, called ATOM-1, in a…
Published on November 8, 2023
Changes in the diversity of human papillomavirus (HPV) types following vaccination may affect future cervical cancer screening programs, suggests data from a study of different vaccination strategies among communities in Finland. The study’s lead author, Ville Pimenoff, from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and Oulu University in Finland, told Inside…
Published on October 26, 2023
Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle have shown that the different disease-fighting functions of distinct T cells are determined by the genetically encoded T-cell receptor (TCR) sequence that are unique to those cells. T cells, the foot soldiers of the human immune system, play a pivotal…