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Gum disease may lie at the root of some arthritis flareups

Medical Xpress

The findings, published in Science Translational Medicine, suggests that breaches in damaged gums allow bacteria in the mouth to seep into the bloodstream, activating an immune response that ultimately pivots to target the body's own proteins and causes arthritis flareups.

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Protein that keeps immune system from freaking out could form basis for new therapeutics

Scienmag

Treatment with a peptide that mimics the naturally occurring protein GIV prevents immune overreaction, supports a mechanism critical for survival in mouse models of sepsis and colitis Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences The immune response to infections is a delicate balance.

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Discovery of protein’s role could improve cancer immunotherapies

Drug Discovery World

Researchers at the University of Turku in Finland have discovered that the protein TIMP-1 plays a critical role in the immune system’s defence against cancer. TIMP-1 is produced by dendritic cells, which are responsible for initiating immune responses and boosting the immune system’s ability to recognise and destroy cancer cells.

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Valneva accelerates Lyme disease vaccine R&D project with Pfizer

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This investigational multivalent protein subunit vaccine targets the outer surface protein A (OspA) of the bacterium Borrelia that causes the disease, an established mechanism of action for a Lyme disease vaccine. VLA15 has demonstrated a promising immune response and safety data in pre-clinical and clinical studies so far.

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What Do We Really Know About Macrophage Programming?

XTalks

Macrophages are white blood cells that specialize in the detection, phagocytosis and destruction of bacteria and other harmful organisms. In other words, when fighting bacteria, the macrophages are programmed to be pro-inflammatory. They found a protein called Rspondin3, which is released at high levels during inflammatory injury.

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Scientists use mRNA to reprogramme the immune system

Drug Discovery World

Dr Kaustav Das Gupta and Professor Matt Sweet from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience discovered that a molecule derived from glucose in immune cells can both stop bacteria growing and dampen inflammatory responses. Coli bacteria from growing,” Dr Das Gupta said. “It

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Leading innovators in coronavirus vaccine components

Pharmaceutical Technology

The key component in all vaccines is one or more active ingredients made from viruses or bacteria, also called antigens, which generates an immune response. The active component of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tozinameran, contains the genetic code for the coronavirus spike protein, inside a lipid (fat) capsule.