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Sanford Burnham Prebys receives $3M NIH award for drugs that restore immune response to COVID-19

Scienmag

Scientists will study how SARS-CoV-19 hijacks the immune system and creates a ‘cytokine storm’ Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.

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Deeper insight into how tick spit suppresses cattle immunity

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Credit: itabajara da Silva Vaz Jr) A tick saliva study reveals immune responses that could lead to better protection for cattle.

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The Lancet: New polio vaccine against strain that threatens eradication is safe and generates immune response in adults, young children, and infants

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Scientists have developed the first poliovirus […].

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Zydus starts Phase II COVID-19 vaccine trial; Taysha raises $95M; FDA declines DBV’s peanut allergy patch; Combating COVID-19 with decoy target

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By ordering human cells to make the protein, ZyCoV-D could cause an immune response against the coronavirus. Scientists have already isolated many highly potent neutralizing antibodies from patients who recovered from COVID-19. FDA turns back peanut allergy patch of DBV Technologies. The agency raised no safety concerns.

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Finding clues to a successful immune response in the T cells of COVID-19 patients

Scienmag

While antibodies may fade fast, T cells appear to be long-lived and might confer lasting immunity.

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New Research Shows IBS Symptoms May be Caused by Gut Infections

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Researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium have found a potential mechanism underlying irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) that involves activation of immune cells primed by past gastrointestinal infections. However, IBS patients do not have allergies to any given foods, nor any gastrointestinal conditions, such as celiac disease.

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Secondary infections inflame the brain, worsening cognition in Alzheimer’s disease

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New research into Alzheimer’s disease (AD) suggests that secondary infections and new inflammatory events amplify the brain’s immune response and affect memory in mice and in humans – even when these secondary events occur outside the brain.