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Channels: Genetics, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Respiratory Diseases and Disorders, China News,

Keywords: Genome, Coronavirus, Virus, virusology, Genetic Engineering, Coronaviruses, China, Sars Virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, respiratory syndrome outbreak, RNA, genes, Disease, Immune System, immunogenic, Pneumonia, nCorona-2019

University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center treated its first patient in a new clinical trial to validate the groundbreaking effects of the poliovirus on glioblastoma (GBM), a deadly Grade IV cancer of the brain. UH is the only Midwest site participating in this clinical trial, which was initiated at Duke Cancer Institute in Durham, NC. The original study, which ran from 2012-2017, was published in New England Journal of Medicine in July 2018 as well as highlighted on “60 Minutes” in 2015 and again in 2018. The study found that survival rates were significantly higher in glioblastoma patients who received an intratumoral infusion of a modified viral chimera combining the polio and rhinoviruses (PVSRIPO immunotherapy) compared to patients receiving standard treatment at the same institution.

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Keywords: Gliobastoma, Poliovirus, Brain Cancer, Neurosurgery, Neurooncology, Clinical Trials For Cancer

The results of the B Part of It study – the largest meningococcal B herd immunity study ever conducted – are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Channels: All Journal News, Children's Health, Immunology, Public Health, Vaccines, Children's Health Featured Story TOP, NEJM, Embargoed Feed - hidden,

Keywords: Vaccine, Vaccination, Immunization, Immunisation, Meningococcal, Meningococcal bacteria, Meningococcal B, Immunity, Adolescence, Pediatrics, Paediatrics, Child Deaths

Overcoming HIV latency – activating HIV in CD4+ T cells that lay dormant – is a needed step toward a cure. Scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill, Emory University, and Qura Therapeutics – a partnership between UNC and ViiV Healthcare – showed it’s possible to drive HIV out of latency in two animal models.

Channels: AIDS and HIV, Blood, Healthcare, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Pharmaceuticals, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Nature (journal), Embargoed Feed - hidden, All Journal News,

Keywords: HIV

The Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI) recently published “Viewpoint” articles by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professors who warn that global climate change is likely to unlock dangerous new microbes, as well as threaten humans’ ability to regulate body temperature.

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Keywords: Endocrinology, Climate Change, Rexford Ahima, Arturo Casadevall, Candida auris, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, heat-related deaths

A research team sheds light on the mechanisms underlying chronic granulomatous disease.

Channels: Genetics, Healthcare, Immunology, Pharmaceuticals, All Journal News,

Keywords: Chronic granulomatous disease, Gene Editing, Gene Mutation

Changes in the lung microbiome may help predict how well critically ill patients will respond to care, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Channels: Healthcare, Immunology, Microbiome, Respiratory Diseases and Disorders, All Journal News,

Keywords: Critical Care Medicine, ICU outcomes, ARDS, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Mesenchymal stromal cells from fat tissue and bone marrow are widely used in therapeutic trials for their anti-inflammatory qualities, but new Mayo Clinic research finds that liver cells may be of greater value. The study, published in Liver Transplantation, finds that liver mesenchymal stromal cells have immunoregulatory qualities that make them more effective than similar cells derived from adipose, or fat, tissue and bone marrow.

Channels: Immunology, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, Transplantation, All Journal News,

Keywords: Mayo Clinic, Immunology, Transplant, Timucin Taner, Liver

The lungs and placentas of fetuses in the womb — as young as 11 weeks after conception — already show a bacterial microbiome signature, which suggests that bacteria may colonize the lungs well before birth. How the microbes or microbial products reach those organs before birth is not known.

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Keywords: Fetal Development, fetal lung development, Microbiome, lung microbiome, Premature Babies, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (Bpd)

An international team of scientists has synthetically engineered mosquitoes that halt the transmission of the dengue virus. The development marks the first engineered approach in mosquitoes that targets the four known types of dengue, improving upon previous designs that addressed single strains.

Channels: Children's Health, Engineering, Immunology, Zika Virus, Southeast Asia News, PLOS ONE, Embargoed Feed - hidden, All Journal News,

Keywords: Dengue, Virus, mosquitoes-borne disease, Antibody, Engineered Mosquitos