Research Progress--Shanghai Institut of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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2019-11

Researchers in Institut Pasteur of Shanghai revealed microbiota transplant from aged hosts confers beneficial effects in young mice

Transplantation of gut microbiota from aged hosts was shown to have beneficial effects in young recipient mice lacking indigenous microbiota by an international team of scientists from Singapore, China, Australia and United Kingdom led by Professor Parag Kundu, who recently joined The Center for ...

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2019-07

Institut Pasteur identifies metabolic ALARMIN factors mediating local-systemic innate immune communication

Across metazoans, scaling the level of the tissue damage or pathogen invasion by the local immunity is a pivotal sensing and alarming step for the fine-tuned systemic immunity. Thus, interorgan communication is critical to help maintain the homeostasis of the local-systemic immunological crosstal...

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2019-06

China approves norovirus vaccine for clinical trial

Chinese authorities have greenlit a clinical trial for the world's first tetravalent vaccine against norovirus, the most common cause of viral gastroenteritis.
　　The vaccine received the clinical research permit from the National Medical Products Administration on May 30, its developer, the Ins...

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2019-02

Discovery of molecular mechanism of DNA helicase PfRecQ1 regulating the mutually exclusive expression of virulence genes in Plasmodium falciparum

The research work, entitled "DNA helicase RecQ1 regulates mutually exclusive expression of virulence genes in Plasmodium falciparum via heterochromatin alteration" has been published online in the Journal of "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States" on February 6, 201...