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Study reveals how cancer immunotherapy may cause heart inflammation in some patients

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By Leah Eisenstadt November 6, 2024 Credit: Ricardo Job-Reese, Broad Communications Despite being one of the rarer complications from immune checkpoint inhibitors, myocarditis is the most deadly. This study is a game-changer, paving the way to unearthing the roots of these complications.

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Not all neoantigens are created equal

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These neoantigens are identified by T cells of the immune system as foreign proteins and thus trigger an immune response. Neoantigens are recognised as non-self and trigger an immune response.

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Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer

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We don’t have good therapeutic solutions and we often have to stop the antitumor therapy or give large amounts of steroids that will also shut down the very immune response that’s fighting the cancer. How big of a problem are these complications from cancer immunotherapy? How did you go about launching this effort?

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Researchers decipher how a gut bacterium influences immunity

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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. Adapted from a press release issued by Harvard Medical School.

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Laurie Glimcher

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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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Revolutionary nanoparticles enable gene-editing in lungs

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Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass), US, have collaborated to create a novel type of nanoparticle that can deliver messenger RNA that encodes for beneficial proteins to the lungs.

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

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Using single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze gene expression in individual cells, the researchers have found how 86 major cytokines affect 17 immune cell types in mice. NH: This is the first single-cell resolution dictionary of each major immune cell type responding to each major cytokine in vivo at an unprecedented scale.