allergy immunology

(La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology and Albany Medical College has illuminated the important role of natural killer T cells in Lyme disease, demonstrating that the once little understood white blood cells are central to clearing the bacterial infection and reducing the intensity and duration of arthritis associated with Lyme disease.

(La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology scientists have discovered one for the textbooks.

Their finding, reported Friday in the scientific journal Immunity, illuminates a new, previously unknown mechanism in how the body fights a virus.

The finding runs counter to traditional scientific understanding of this process and will provide scientists a more effective method for developing vaccines.