In severe cases of COVID-19, a person’s immune system throws everything it has at the coronavirus, but some of the weapons it lobs end up hurting the patient instead of fighting the virus. Now ...
Bonn, November 8, 2022 - The innate immune system fights infectious agents. The alarm messenger interferon plays a central role in this. However, if it is produced in the absence of an infection, it ...
A component of the human interferon system that activates SARS-CoV-2 cellular defenses appears to be defective in a proportion of humans, new research reports. COVID-19 outcomes were more severe in ...
A single egg is reported to contain enough interferon to treat 15 HCV patients for a year. Viragen, Roslin Institute, and Oxford Biomedica report a breakthrough in the development of the OVA™ System, ...
Researchers have discovered that Type I interferon (IFN) plays a key role in helping the immune system effectively target viruses, while stopping white blood cells from 'going rogue' and attacking the ...
These intercellular messages, ferried about by molecules called interferons, serve as a warning signal to nearby cells—“‘You are about to be infected; it’s time for you to set up an antiviral state,’” ...
Researchers across the planet are racing to harness one of our immune system’s front-line defenders as an early treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus that has killed more than ...
The immune system uses a special mechanism to protect children from novel viruses—and it typically saves them from a severe course of COVID-19 in two different ways. In the mucous membranes of their ...
The expanding use of small RNA technology to silence specific genes shows no signs of slowing down. However, the discovery that it can induce components of the interferon system in animal cells should ...
Two genes with very strong associations with the disease SLE have been identified by a team of scientists headed by researchers at the Department of Medical Sciences at Uppsala University. The ...
Uppsala, Sweden - Analysis of 11 candidate genes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients and unaffected family members has identified 2 genes in the type I interferon (IFN) system that are ...
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