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Immune system

How HIV Disables the Cells' Call for Help
07.07.2005
Weizmann Institute Scientists discover how an HIV protein fragment shuts down an immune response. Their finding may have...
Higher Yields, Lower Pollution
01.10.2003

A common soil microorganism is helping "fight fungus with fungus"

Prof. Gideon Berke.
01.10.2002

Sometimes the good guys turn against their comrades in arms

Prof. Michal Schwartz
01.05.2001

Institute scientists halt progressive eyesight loss in animals afflicted with a glaucoma-like disease

Immunity's Nervous Supervisor
01.12.1998
Our body systems are like sections in an orchestra, "conducted" by the brain. But how exactly does the brain, which is...
The Healing Connection
01.10.1998

A innovative treatment uses an animal's own self-repair mechanism to partially reverse paralysis

Key Step in Activating Immune System Discovered
06.02.1997
REHOVOT, Israel - February 6, 1997 - A gene that plays a key role in activating the immune system -- and perhaps...
New Concept Explains Why Mammals Can't Repair Central Nervous System Damage
16.09.1996
REHOVOT, Israel -- September 17, 1996 -- Why is it that humans and other mammals are left permanently paralyzed...
Tuberculosis Bacteria May Protect Against Autoimmune Disease
01.10.1995

A protein derived from the tuberculosis bacterium might protect against multiple sclerosis

Immune System Decline in the Elderly Probed
01.05.1993
Age bone marrow cells are implicated in the decline in thymus function

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