Research Computer Simulation Captures Immune Response to Flu By URMC Communications May. 17, 2009 Researchers have successfully tested for the first time a computer simulation of major portions of the body’s immune reaction to influenza type A, with implications for treatment design and ...
Research Autoimmunity Center of Excellence Recharged with New Funding By URMC Communications May. 10, 2009 The University of Rochester Medical Center is one of only nine institutions nationwide to receive a new wave of National Institutes of Health dollars designed to help unravel – and design treatments ...
Research Study Reveals Current Multi-Component Vaccines May Need Reworking By URMC Communications May. 6, 2009 Current strategies for designing vaccines against HIV and cancers, for instance, may enable some components in multi-component vaccines to cancel the effect of others on the immune system, ...
Research Link Between, Bacteria, Cancer Explored With Funding from American Cancer Society By URMC Communications Mar. 2, 2009 The role of bacteria in the development of colorectal cancer is coming under scrutiny at the University of Rochester Medical Center, thanks to an $840,000 research award from the American Cancer ...
Research A Worm-and-Mouse Tale: B Cells Deserve More Respect By URMC Communications Feb. 25, 2009 By studying how mice fight off infection by intestinal worms – a condition that affects more than 2 billion people worldwide – scientists have discovered that the immune system is more versatile than ...
Research Researchers Block Immune Cell Rush Behind Deadly Sepsis By URMC Communications Feb. 23, 2009 Researchers have found a way to block the ability of white blood cells to sprint toward the sites of infection when such speed worsens the damage done by sepsis, the often fatal, whole-body bacterial ...
Research New Test May Help To Ensure that Dengue Vaccines Do No Harm By URMC Communications Feb. 11, 2009 As vaccines against a virus that infects 100 million people annually reach late-stage clinical trials this year, researchers have developed a test to better predict whether a given vaccine candidate ...
Research $1.9M to Help Explore Why Lupus Therapies Work for Some, Not Others By URMC Communications Feb. 5, 2009 Bolstered by a five-year, $1.9 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health, Jennifer Anolik, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Medicine and of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, ...
More Children Need Medical Help for RSV Than Previously Known By URMC Communications Feb. 4, 2009 More than 2 million children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) are seen in hospitals, emergency rooms and doctors’ offices in the United States every year — many more than doctors know. In fact, ...
Research New Bone Cement May Prevent Amputations By URMC Communications Jan. 26, 2009 Old technologies, bone cement and a well known antibiotic, may effectively fight an emerging infection in soldiers with compound bone fractures, according to a study published online today in the ...
