Researchers have been working to develop approaches to curing Type 1 diabetes by transplanting healthy islet cells into the pancreas. Investigators at Northwestern University have developed a technique to make the immunomodulation effect of immunosuppressive drugs more effective.
Ceptur Therapeutics – based in Hillsborough, NJ, Philadelphia and Copenhagen – closed on a Series A financing round worth $75 million.
The next “giant leap” for humans may be a trip to Mars, but having enough oxygen-carrying red blood cells for the journey might present a challenge, new research suggests.
Takeda added some more firepower to the company’s immuno-oncology game on January 10 when the Japanese giant announced it will exercise an option to acquire U.K.-based Adaptate Biotherapeutics.
High levels of T-cells from common cold coronaviruses can provide protection against COVID-19, an Imperial College London study published on January 10 found, which could inform approaches for second-generation vaccines.
The Omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 likely acquired at least one of its mutations by picking up a snippet of genetic material from another virus – possibly one that causes the common cold – present in the same infected cells, according to researchers.
BioSpace reviewed some of the more interesting scientific studies recently published, including research into a potential cause of Alzheimer’s disease and how deleting dysfunctional fat cells could alleviate diabetes.
British researchers said on November 10 they had identified proteins in the coronavirus that are recognized by T-cells of people who are exposed to the virus but resist infection, possibly providing a new target for vaccine developers.
Researchers with the University of Cambridge for the first time leveraged human data to quantify the speed of various processes in the brain that lead to Alzheimer’s disease.
The inexpensive antidepressant fluvoxamine might help keep patients with Covid-19 from developing severe disease, according to a study published in The Lancet Global Health. Researchers found in another study that the coronavirus can infect cells of the inner ear, which may help explain the balance problems, hearing loss and tinnitus (ringing in the ears) experienced by some Covid-19 patients.
