Despite potential benefits, the therapy remains in limited use for myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). Pegylated interferons are a meaningful therapeutic option for the treatment of ...

In a recent study published in Science Immunology, researchers investigated whether individuals with breakthrough infections of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia demonstrated normal ...

In 1980, TIME Magazine wrote about interferon as the “if” drug for cancer. Promising studies sparked widespread hope around the potential of the interferon to treat cancer, only if it could deliver ...

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder caused by the body’s autoimmune attack of the protective covering that surrounds nerves in the body. This substance is called myelin and ...

CHICAGO — The use of a clinically validated flow cytometry test can assess type 1 and type 2 interferon activity in children with various pediatric inflammatory diseases to evaluate and monitor their ...

Early this year, when COVID-19 was still a localized outbreak in China, Eleanor Fish, an immunologist at the University of Toronto, reached out to colleagues in Wuhan to explore the possibility of ...

Researchers have examined five SARS-CoV-2 variants to determine how each strain interacts with the innate arm of the immune system -- the first line of defense in the immune system versus the antibody ...

In severe cases of COVID-19, a person’s immune system throws everything it has at the coronavirus, but some of the weapons it lobs end up hurting the patient instead of fighting the virus. Now ...

Over the past decade, the pharmaceutical pipeline has become packed with small molecules that treat the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Hopes are high that the current standard of care—a combination of ...

Researchers across the planet are racing to harness one of the immune system’s front-line defenders as an early treatment for covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus that has killed more than ...

Interferons (IFNs) have been investigated as important cytokines in immunotherapy. The use of IFNs in cancer immunotherapy has had limited success. In this study, IFN genes were delivered into B16 ...