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Broad Discovery Series: Introducing the immune system, and expanding its cancer-fighting potential

Broad Institute

Lloyd Bod is an associate member of Broad, a principal investigator in the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Learn more about the Broad Discovery Series.

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Researchers decipher how a gut bacterium influences immunity

Broad Institute

Researchers decipher how a gut bacterium influences immunity By Corie Lok July 26, 2022 Breadcrumb Home News Researchers decipher how a gut bacterium influences immunity Study finds a molecule made by the bacterium that helps moderate immune responses. It gets its name from the intestinal mucus it breaks down.

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Advances in the Battle Against Autoimmune Disease

The Pharma Data

A healthy immune system defends the body against disease and other conditions. However, if the immune system malfunctions, it can attack healthy cells, tissues and organs. Autoimmune disease impacts different parts of the body, weakening functionality. Autoimmune diseases affect more than 24 million people in the U.S.

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Laurie Glimcher

Broad Institute

She is also director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she was the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and Professor of Medicine of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University. Glimcher, M.D.,

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Therapeutic Vaccine Is Keeping Melanoma in Remission 4 Years On

The Pharma Data

25, 2021 — Giving melanoma patients a “personalized” vaccine can prompt an anti-tumor immune response that lasts for years, an early study finds. But it builds on earlier work showing it is possible to spur the immune system to respond to an individual’s unique tumor. MONDAY, Jan. SOURCES: Patrick A.

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Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Repurposing

DrugBank

CMap utilizes gene expression profiles to connect drugs, genes, and diseases, enabling researchers to identify potential repurposing candidates based on their transcriptional signatures. They discovered that cimetidine inhibits gene expression in tumor growth and metastasis, suggesting that it could effectively slow disease progression. 

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New “dictionary” of immune responses reveals far more complexity in the immune system than previously thought

Broad Institute

The immune system can carry out many biological processes, from killing viruses to fighting cancer, thanks in large part to approximately 100 key cell-signaling proteins called cytokines, which instruct immune cells what to do. The reference, called the Immune Dictionary , appears today in Nature.