Sentences with phrase «own immune»

But dads aren't immune to guilt.

IRON ore producers in the state's Yilgarn region are not immune from the hurdles facing producers in the Pilbara and Mid West — port capacity and access issues, transportation and infrastructure — but

«Each morning I alternate between having warm water with lemon or warm water with fresh turmeric to ensure a healthy immune system.

«We are training the immune system, in essence, and engineering it to do what it can not do,» Tehrani says.

«If U.S. rates move too quickly, they will dislocate [high yielding] assets more broadly and the most liquid emerging markets will not be immune to a selloff,» he added, pointing to the 2013 taper tantrum as an illustration of this idea in action.

While banking and private equity «feel» the shifts of unemployment rates, interest rates, and fiscal uncertainty, the best investors and entrepreneurs, he says, are «immune» to these factors.

Your company may have a strict social media policy, but that still doesn't make it immune to Facebook, Twitter et al's special brand of justice.

He had been following the emerging science of immunotherapy, which is the use and augmentation of the human immune system to fight disease.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday gave Swiss drug giant Novartis a second approval for its pioneering CAR - T cancer therapy, which uses patients» own immune cells (re-engineered outside the body and then replicated) to destroy blood cancers.

There are actually a few of those drugs now: Cervarix, made by GSK, which targets strains 16 and 18; Gardasil, made by Merck, which preempts those two killers, plus strains 6 and 11; and Merck's Gardasil 9, which primes the body's immune system to create protective antibodies against — you guessed it — nine types of HPV.

On its own, the immune system boasts different molecules that detect harmful intruders, eradicate small infections and work to contain larger outbreaks.

The problem with some intractable diseases, especially cancer, is that they inhabit the body's own cells, which the immune system is hard - wired to leave alone.

If the results from ESPN (which is traditionally seen as almost immune to market forces, because of its hold on sports programming) got the market nervous about cord - cutting and the loss of traditional TV subscribers, Thursday's comments from Sanford Bernstein analyst Todd Juenger poured gasoline on those fears.

If the pathogen or parasite gets by these immune cells, it may successfully invade the mosquito salivary glands.

In a seminal 1992 paper published in the journal PNAS, Lowy, Schiller, and colleagues showed that certain proteins in HPV's capsid, or shell, could trigger an immune response, even in the absence of the infectious virions (the dangerous part of the virus).

It's a bona fide West Hollywood institution, a sun - kissed sanctuary seemingly immune to the vagaries of time and fashion.

It would never crash, it would be immune to weather and it would get passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in under 30 minutes.

That involves using small doses to introduce the person — and his or her immune system — to whatever they're allergic to in the hopes that they'll be able to re-train their immune system to react less strongly to the allergen over time.

It turns out that these long - lived fishes, who are our ancient evolutionary cousins, share the core of an adaptive immune system with human beings.

Even cancer doctors aren't immune.

There are more than 80 immune - related cancer therapies currently in clinical trials, fueled by many billions of dollars in pharmaceutical investment from the likes of Bristol - Myers Squibb bmy, Merck mrk, Pfizer pfe, and dozens of biotechs.

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

Consider: Last year alone, the FDA approved two treatments, from Novartis and Gilead, that literally reengineer patients» immune T - cells to target and destroy blood cancers.

In the most recent of these reports (in the latest issue of Science), Dr. Jennifer Wargo, a surgeon and research scientist at M.D. Anderson, along with several dozen colleagues at other institutions, reveal that the composition of a patient's gut microbiota can significantly influence whether he or she responds to an immune checkpoint inhibitor — the type of cancer immunotherapy that releases the emergency brakes in the car analogy above.

This new wave of automation is expected to take over certain tasks that many thought to be immune to technological advancements, such as administrative or office work.

While the virus is often symptom - free and usually mild, it can also cause birth defects like microcephaly in babies and trigger immune diseases like Guillain - Barre syndrome in adults.

And so early efforts centered on making sure the gas tank was filled — priming the immune system with cytokines (such as the interleukins) or with immune - signaling proteins like interferon to rev up the tumor - fighting response.

The idea behind the pills is simple: foster the growth of beneficial bacteria in the gut and curb the growth of the bad bacteria to improve digestion, boost the immune system, and even lower rates of certain diseases.

Autoimmune disorders run in his family: His mom suffers from Hashimoto's disease, in which the immune system attacks the thyroid gland.

The psoriasis field is among the most lucrative (if not the most lucrative) in biopharma, thanks to a combination of a massive patient pool and the ways in which these treatments can extend to somewhat related immune and inflammatory conditions, like arthritis and Crohn's disease.

Elion also discovered azathioprine, an immunosuppressant that made it possible for people with weak immune systems to receive organ transplants.

Airborne is still sold today, and still claims it can «help support your immune system.»

Modern polls are not immune to these issues.

• FLX Bio Inc, a South San Francisco - based biopharmaceutical company focused on activating the immune system against cancer, raised $ 60 million in Series C funding.

I don't think our funds, in many cases, are immune to that.»

The fight or flight response also slows the digestive system, lowers immune defenses and causes growth and sex hormones to drop.

The company is developing a T - cell reprogramming technology designed to generate an anti-tumor response from the patient's own immune system.

We live in a society that has become immune to traditional forms of advertising so be on the lookout for new and creative ways to market your brand.

It's as if the immune system were a car that no longer functioned when a person got cancer.

Startup founders aren't immune to the basic human need to be heard, even if stereotypical Silicon Valley bravado might have them thinking they are, says Moriarty.

So research teams began souping up various types of immune cells and even targeting them to specific protein markers on tumors.

The intuitive notion of harnessing the body's own immune system to fight the enemy within is more than a century old — and seemingly, each time researchers have seemed close to turning that theory into reality, a new stumbling block appears.

Sleep sustains the immune system, balances the hormones, repairs the body and helps the brain process and archive information.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister has underlined that no - one is immune to the current crackdown in the country.

Indeed, research has found that meditation has a number of mental and physical health benefits, from improving memory to increasing compassion to boosting the immune system.

Studies show spending time among trees boosts the number of «killer cells» in the immune system that are key to beating infections and fighting cancer.

No one is immune from those days when work piles up but we lack the ambition to get it done.

When you're negative, you release it, and elevated levels of the stuff, «interfere with learning and memory, lower immune function and bone density, increase weight gain, blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease....

Today his company is developing a new cancer vaccine technology that teaches immune cells how to recognize and remove tumor cells.

In a New Yorker report, Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, calls on companies to reassess their values: «This includes rejecting the cult of the top performer, which tolerates otherwise unacceptable behavior, and instead building a culture that functions as the company's immune system: surfacing cases of abuse and identifying toxic elements as fast as possible, and then quickly rejecting them.»