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Jan. 24, 2024 — An immune component of breast milk known as the complement system shapes the gut environment of infant mice in ways that make them less susceptible to certain disease-causing ...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) remains a leading cause of vision loss, but new therapies are reshaping its treatment.
These are exciting times for biotech business Complement Therapeutics, which stands on the cusp of an important milestone in its area of expertise on both sides of the Atlantic.
The HLA system is little understood, ... HLA/MHC class III genes produce proteins which play a part in inflammatory reactions, such as complement system components and tumor necrosis factors, ...
Researchers in the United States have conducted a study showing that activation of the complement system is specifically implicated in the pathogenesis of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 ...
Previous genetic studies have shown that variants in the genes that encode several complement system components are important risk factors for AMD. Based on this, ...
University of Pennsylvania researchers have found a promising new treatment for periodontitis using a component of the immune system called complement, according to a new study in the Journal of ...
In a study published on line this week in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, Drs. Donita Garland, Rosario Fernandez-Godino, and Eric Pierce of the Ocular Genomics Institute at the Massachusetts ...
ALN-CC5 is an RNAi therapeutic targeting the C5 component of the complement pathway for the treatment of complement-mediated diseases. The complement system plays a central role in immunity as a ...