Introduction One of humanity’s most ubiquitous infectious pathogens bears the blame for the chronic autoimmune condition called systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or, colloquially, lupus, Stanford Medicine investigators and their colleagues have found. Several hundred thousand Americans (by some estimates close to a million) and about 5 million worldwide have lupus, in which the immune system…

Con ogni boccone di cibo che ingeriamo, il nostro sistema immunitario intestinale deve prendere una grande decisione. Incaricate di difenderci da patogeni estranei, queste cellule estremamente sensibili in qualche modo distinguono gli amici dagli invasori che distruggono i nemici, tollerando al contempo cibo e batteri utili. Il modo in cui l’intestino separa il buono dal cattivo ha a lungo…

Ovary cancer eludes immunity? Chemical databases will show a natural way to hinge with

Due to the development of resistance to chemotherapy and recurring tumors, patients with ovarian cancer often have low survival rates. Even the immunotherapy, sometimes, is not deveoided of insuccesses; therefore, new therapeutic options such as targeted therapy that boosts antitumor immunity are needed to improve treatment efficacy and patient survival. In a research published a couple of days…