Article categories : "Immunology"

• Biology
• Immunology

5 min

Published the 23/03/2022

Giving everything you've got: Donating organs

As with blood, organ transplantation and donation is a much more complicated process than the "simple" replacement of a liver or kidney. On top of the extremely complicated and precise microsurgical intervention, there is also the imminent threat of organ rejection, where our body pecieves the new o [...]

• Biology
• Immunology

4 min

Published the 02/02/2022

On the trail of a vaccine against allergic asthma

Asthma is a chronicle disease affecting approximately 340 millions of people worldwide. Allergic asthma accounts for 50 % of asthma in the adult population. A new vaccine against this specific form could be developed in the upcoming years.In May 2021, the Pasteur Institute, in association with Inse [...]

• Immunology

4 min

Published the 26/10/2021

Help me doctor, I am allergic!

More and more people are allergic, children and adults. Our genes, as well as the environment and living conditions, will affect the occurrence of allergies. Could it be the disease of the XXIe century?One of the most prevalent ailments of modern time is, once again, [...]

• Immunology

5 min

Published the 14/07/2021

A virus crowned with success

For more than half a year, our life has become a Hollywood disaster movie like Contagion (2011) from Steven Soderbergh. The events that took place in December 2019 were almost too similar for comfort, and for a good reason. The screenwriters had ch [...]

• Biology
• Neuropsycology
• Immunology

Published the 14/04/2021

Policing the neural night club: microglia

With astrocytes buzzing around the brain, oligodendrocytes hugging every stranger they meet, and everybody dancing to the beat of neurons, somebody needs to act responsibely and see that nobody gets hurt. Even the greatest parties have their limitations, and there is one constantly occuring in our b [...]

• Immunology

Published the 17/03/2021

Immune checkpoint therapies dilemma

A new type of therapy has emerged during the past ten years: the immune checkpoint therapies. The efficacy of such treatments has been proven in several cancers. An immune checkpoint is a security check for an immune cell. It is a switch that will turn the cell on or off. These therapies would not h [...]