Sentences with phrase «potential immune therapy»
A new wave of potential immune therapies aims to target the network of complex sugars that coat cancer cells, Esther Landhuis reported in «Cancer's sweet cloak» (SN: 4/1/17, p. 24).
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With the potential to affect such a diverse array of neurological ailments, many of which have no known therapy, the hope is that an improved understanding of immune - CNS interactions will bring to light new paradigms for preventing and treating neurological disease.
«Knowing that immune cytokines can change pigment production in melanocytes, while also knowing that chronic inflammation has the potential to increase the number of melanocytes, has clear implications for the design of future therapies to address a set of common skin disorders,» says Dr. Krueger, director of Milstein Research Program and D. Martin Carter Professor in Clinical Investigation.
On the flipside, targeting this growth factor or BCL - 2 could reduce NK cell numbers and offer potential therapies for immune disorders such as some types of autoimmune diseases, sepsis or graft versus host disease, a side effect of bone marrow transplants.
Still, the standard form of liver - targeted gene therapy carries a range of potential complications, including the risk of harmful mutations and of the body mounting an immune response against the viral vectors used to carry the correct forms of the defective genes responsible for haemophilia.
They suggest allocating greater resources to research focused on immune checkpoint therapies and targeted / immunotherapy combination therapies with «curative potential.»
Dr. Martinez - Agosto noted, «Looking at the functionality of these genes and their effect on the immune response has great potential for accelerating the development of new targeted therapies.»
Two teams of scientists suggest that activating immune cells in fat can convert the tissue from a type of fat that stores energy to one that burns it, opening up potential new therapies for obesity and diabetes.
The results also indicate the KRAS - variant's potential to identify people who will respond differently to therapies that depend on the immune response.
Her work - published in December 2007 - revealed genes involved in drug resistance and in evading the immune system, giving researchers potential targets for new therapies and vaccines.
The immune system underlies the pathophysiology of nearly every disease, yet therapies that modulate immunity for clinical benefit have yet to reach their full potential.
The data presented provide new insights on the potential mechanism by which Seres» microbiome therapies could improve the outcomes of cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
Through strategic partnerships with industry and nonprofit organizations, we gain access to a portfolio of priority drugs for testing within our expert focus groups, including checkpoint inhibitors, therapeutic vaccines, innate immune stimulants, targeted therapies, and many other promising treatments and technologies with high therapeutic potential.
Together with his colleagues, he set to work building a better mouse model, one with human immune cells that would make it possible to safely and reliably assess potential vaccines and therapies prior to human trials.
Although researchers are excited about the potential to use CRISPR to create therapies from people's own blood, immune, and stem cells, thousands more genetic conditions affect everything else.
In an editorial published with the study, Viktor Grunwald, of Hannover Medical School, Germany, wrote «these antitumour activity findings indicate the potential clinical benefit of targeted - immune combinations and suggest that further studies are warranted to explore whether a first - line targeted - immune combination might overcome the standard of sequential targeted and immune therapies.»
Used with concomitant maintenance immune suppression therapy, the PEC - Direct product has the potential of delivering a sustained, functional cure for patients with type 1 diabetes who are at high risk for acute life - threatening complications.
Science continues to show the potential for whole food concentrates and glandular therapy to heal a variety of degenerative conditions and immune system disorders.
Once the doctor has ruled out other potential problems and treated any secondary skin or ear infections, therapy can be guided toward treating with prescription medications, and using hyposensitization techniques which allow patients to slowly become «immune» to their allergies.