Sentences with phrase «by immunologist»

The FIV virus was first isolated in cats in 1986 by immunologist Janet Yamamoto and Niels Pedersen.

Estimates for the rate of gluten sensitivity range from 6 percent of the population to considerably higher — a randomized population sample of 500 people conducted by immunologist Aristo Vojdani, PhD found one in three people had gluten sensitivity.

But a team led by immunologist Michel Nussenzweig of the Rockefeller University in New York City has shown that it may be possible to outwit the virus by combining several bNAbs that target different parts of it.

In one of the studies, a team led by immunologist Mark Pepys of the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London, United Kingdom, treated mice with a protein from cobra venom that sops up a key complement protein.

More specifically, tisagenlecleucel is a type of chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR - T) therapy, a technique pioneered by immunologist Carl June and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania.

While studying why some mice resist HSK, a team led by immunologist Harvey Cantor of Harvard Medical School in Boston found that possession of a particular variant of one type of antibody renders T cells incapable of attacking tissue in the cornea, the transparent covering of the iris and pupil.

In tomorrow's Nature, a team led by immunologist Rolf Zinkernagel from the University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland, suggests that animals may gain lifelong immunity to some viral infections by retaining a bit of viral DNA inside their cells like a souvenir.

That connection was strengthened by immunologist Madeleine Cunningham, a rheumatic fever expert from the University of Oklahoma.

Guided by a world - renowned Scientific Advisory Council that includes three Nobel laureates and 26 members of the National Academy of Sciences, CRI has invested $ 336 million in support of research conducted by immunologists and tumor immunologists at the world's leading medical centers and universities, and has contributed to many of the key scientific advances that demonstrate the potential for immunotherapy to change the face of cancer treatment.

Not exact matches

Not only microbes protect against asthma evidently, but also farm animals: Petting cats and cows and drinking farm milk can also prevent asthma, as the team of researchers headed up by Remo Frei of the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research from the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK - CARE) in Davos and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen: «Early childhood contact with animals and the consumption of food of animal origin seems to regulate the inflammatory reactions of the immune system,» says immunologist Frei.

Now cancer researchers and immunologists at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet have discovered how cancer cells can infiltrate the lymphatic system by «disguising» themselves as immune cells (white blood cells).

If you'd like to explore a broader range of sectors, you can find a series of profiles of immunologists in academia, industry, the National Health Service (NHS), and publishing in a careers brochure produced by the British Society for Immunology (BSI)-- Immunology — a career for the future.

Although the group didn't identify the toxin's target, it probably causes cells to die from within by overstimulating the immune system, says immunologist Harry Hill of the University of Utah.

Opsona Therapeutics, for example, a drug development company focusing on the regulation of the human immune system, was founded in Dublin in 2004 by three immunologists at Trinity College Dublin.

In a related study also published today in PNAS, immunologists led by Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy and Hartmut Wekerle of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany, examined the gut microbiomes of 34 sets of identical twins, aged 21 to 63, in which only one twin had MS.. They found that Akkermansia was slightly but significantly more abundant in MS patients than in their healthy twins.

Immunologist Ralph Steinman was honored today by the Nobel Committee for his discovery of dendritic cells, a class of immune cells that help rally the body's natural defenses to fight disease.

A team led by University of Minnesota immunologist and gastroenterologist Alexander Khoruts has recently demonstrated spectacular success with fecal transplants, which introduce healthy stool microbes into a diseased bowel.

Published in Immunity, the study was led by Dr Shelia Dias and Professor Stephen Nutt, in collaboration with a team of immunologists and bioinformaticians at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

Now, immunologists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, have contaminated lab mice in a different way: by giving them gut bacteria from wild mice.

Together, the findings indicate that the virus by itself can wreak havoc, says Michael Diamond, a viral immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri who led the Cell study.

For the work, Kasper's microbiology team collaborated with immunologists from the HMS lab run by Diane Mathis and Christophe Benoist.

As Medzhitov searched for papers on this subject, he came across references to a 1989 essay written by Charles Janeway, an immunologist at Yale, titled «Approaching the Asymptote?

During the next 4 years I completed the clinical pathology core rotations a few months at a time and gained experience in immunology through hands - on experimentation and by advising students jointly with my immunologist colleague.

Slusher teamed up with Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center immunologist Jonathan Powell, M.D., Ph.D., who has studied how cancer cells use different metabolic pathways to evade destruction by immune cells.

Immunologist Jonathan Rast of University of Toronto in Canada initially noticed hints of a Rag1 - like gene in the data produced by scientists sequencing the sea urchin's genome.

By better understanding how antigen presentation is translated into long - term immunity, immunologists can inform the design of simpler vaccines.

«By the way, I'm an immunologist in the field of regulatory T cells.

But if the immune system is indeed attacking the corneal protein identified by the Cantor group, the discovery could «in principle allow us to disrupt or arrest this component» of the attack, says M. Reza Dana, an ophthalmologist and ocular immunologist at Harvard Medical School, perhaps by inactivating the specific set of immune cells responsible for it.

The finding is the «final piece of evidence that during an infection, a virus can bring about autoimmune disease [by molecular mimicry],» says viral immunologist Michael Oldstone of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who first proposed the hypothesis in 1982.

«Currently, crystallography is the tool used by biologists and immunologists to probe the inner workings of proteins and molecules — the machines of life.

This process was made possible by interdisciplinary collaboration between immunologists and molecular imaging specialists.

Columbia University immunologist Rachel Miller recently found evidence babies have pretty well developed immune systems by the time they're born.

Researchers had long suspected that two DNA - cutting enzymes called RAG1 and RAG2 are encoded by relics of a DNA transposon, but no one had ever found a transposon that uses those proteins to slice and hop out of a spot, says immunologist Anlong Xu of Sun Yat - sen University in Guangzhou, China.

The researchers, led by Professor Bernd Pichler at the Werner Siemens Imaging Center, worked with dermatologists, pathologists and immunologists at the University hospitals and at the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research.

James Baker, who is a physician and immunologist and CEO of the nonprofit Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE), says his organization is tackling this problem by setting up 40 centers around the country to administer food challenges with all the necessary precautions.

By demonstrating that a widely used mouse model of autism does have gastrointestinal problems, and that these problems are associated with behavioral symptoms, the new research «shows us something fabulous,» says Betty Diamond, an immunologist at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York.

But immunologist Donald MacGlashan of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, says the genetically modified mice created by Karasuyama's team are a «fabulous tool» to probe what else these elusive cells do in the body.

«This research is very important, but it remains to be clarified what the role of these two loci are,» says Mark Connors, an immunologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, whose lab first reported that HIV - infected people who remain unharmed by the virus for many years often have the HLA - B * 5701 allele.

In the new work, immunologist Hajime Karasuyama of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University Graduate School in Japan and colleagues tracked basophils in mice troubled by ticks.

To get around this problem, a team led by Andrew Saxon, an immunologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, hijacked one of the immune system's own molecules.

The symposium features presentations by Philippa Marrack and John Kappler talking on the T cell repertoire; William Paul on interleukin 4 as a prototypic immunoregulatory cytokine; Timothy Springer on lymphocyte trafficking; Pamela Bjorkman on structural studies of MHC and MHC - related proteins, and Jack Strominger on peptide presentation by class I and II MHC proteins; Thierry Boon on genes coding for tumor rejection antigens, including the first tumor antigen, MAGE - 1; and Philip Greenberg on the modification of T cells for adoptive therapy by retroviral - mediated gene insertion Since then, the symposia series has attracted leading immunologists in the cancer vaccine and antibody fields, providing them with a comprehensive view of the promises and challenges in the development of cancer immunotherapies.

Over the years, Dr. Kronenberg has received many major awards, including a prestigious Merit Award for scientific achievement from the National Institutes of Health, the Distinguished Service Award by the American Association of Immunologists.

AAI Veterinary Immunology Committee Neonatal Immunity: Getting it Right from the Start Support in part provided by the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists Saturday, May 5, 12:30 PM — 2:30 PM, Room 19AB Chairs: Crystal Loving, Natl. Animal Dis.

The researchers decided to run a small trial, led by Hopkins immunologist Dung Le and geneticist Diaz, to determine whether the defect could predict a patient's response to immunotherapy.

Immunologists are working on vaccines that don't need to be reformulated each year: «universal vaccines» that induce broad immunity, protecting against current and future strains of flu by mechanisms that are not just dependent on antibody.

Dendritic cells were discovered in 1973 by a Canadian immunologist called Ralph Steinman while he was working in the lab of Zanvil Cohen at the Rockefeller University in New York.

The research team, led by Emory Vaccine Center immunologist Bali Pulendran, discovered that mice lacking the amino acid sensor GCN2 are more sensitive to the chemical irritant DSS (dextran sodium sulfate), often used to model colitis in animals.

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Foreword, by Aristo Vojdani, PhD, MSc, MT Dr. Vojdani, one of the country's most esteemed immunologists, writes the foreword.

BrainPOP was founded in 1999 by Avraham Kadar, M.D., an immunologist and pediatrician, as a creative way to explain difficult concepts to his young patients.