A*STAR Singapore Immunology Network (A*STAR SIgN)
B cell clusters help control liver cancer
23 Aug 2016Immune system B cells play a role in tackling liver cancer and provide a marker for patient prognosis
Link discovered between skin disease and resident bacteria
26 Jul 2016Even when not suffering from flare ups, people susceptible to atopic dermatitis have different microbes living on their skin than non-sufferers
The journey from blood to tonsils
14 Jun 2016Single-cell analysis reveals how immune cells are related and which ones accumulate in the tonsils during childhood
Early deciders
1 Jun 2016Precursors to dendritic cells decide what they want to be when they grow
up much earlier than previously thought
Enhanced safety in numbers
5 May 2016The large scale harvesting of rare immune system cells could lead to effective treatments for immunity-related disorders
Breaching the blood–brain divide
5 May 2016The immune system of mice is implicated in helping malaria to move from the blood to the brain
Spotlight on skin-deep defense
19 Apr 2016Cells discovered in mouse embryos could shed light on newborn skin immunity
Genomic analysis reveals disease susceptibility
19 Apr 2016Variations in the genome of immune cells underlie differences in our individual predisposition to several diseases
Some ‘essential’ genes more essential than others
8 Mar 2016The ability of cells to adapt to the loss of some genes previously thought vital for survival challenges the concept of gene essentiality
Monocytes switch roles during sepsis
26 Jan 2016Monocytes are ‘reprogrammed’ to be immunosuppressive as sepsis progresses
Confirming the origin of macrophages
26 Jan 2016Macrophages
are shown to originate from two distinct sources during the earliest stages of
development in the embryo