Sentences with phrase «lasting immune attack»

In an NIH - funded study, an experimental vaccine triggered a lasting immune attack in monkeys that eliminated all traces of SIV infection after a year or more.

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Scientists can try to induce the immune system, known as immunotherapy, to go into attack mode to fight cancer and to build long lasting immune resistance to cancer cells.

The flu virus is a master at guiding the immune system's attacks to its strongest defences — now a way to avoid its decoys could lead to a long - lasting treatment for many kinds of flu

In this last - ditch effort to save these patients, the researchers will extract T cells, immune cells that recognize and kill cells, such as those in bacterial infections, that might be harmful to the body, and tweak their genes so that the cells can now attack cancerous cells.

We are recruiting people who have developed Type 1 Diabetes in the last 6 months to receive treatments which aim to reset the immune system and mobilize stem cells - hoping that will reverse or prevent further immune attack of pancreatic beta cells.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week approved a drug that genetically modifies a patient's immune cells to attack cancer cells.

I don't know whether my thyroid was removed during that surgery or did my immune system attack and kill my thyroid gland in the last 40 years.

If you have autoimmune Hashimoto's thyroiditis and you eat gluten, your immune system may mistakenly mount an attack on your thyroid, and the attack can last for months.