How To Boost Your Immune System? ITV Tonight
Professor Sheena Cruickshank provided her expertise for an ITV 1 Tonight special on how to boost your immune system, which aired on the 10th of February.The programme looked at the recent flu and cold epidemic in the UK - the worst in a decade - with a focus on how...
Why is it so hard to cure the common cold?
Professor Sheena Cruickshank has provided her expertise for a new animation produced by TED-Ed on the causes of the common cold and whether a cure is even possible.On average, adults catch more than 150 colds throughout their lives. Even with similar symptoms, the...
Lung Cancer Detection Kit – UMIF Ideas with Impact
Lydia Becker Institute Director Professor Tracy Hussell has been awarded funding via the University of Manchester Innovation Factory’s Healthy Futures Ideas with Impact scheme to develop a home screening test-kit for the early detection of lung cancer.Lung cancer is...
Revisiting how the immune system works to make better drugs
In the first of our new series entitled 'Study in Focus' Dr Doug Dyer writes about recent work from his lab led by Dr Anna Gray on the importance of chemokines in recruiting immune cells into tissues to fight infections and how a greater understanding of this process...
Does COVID really damage your immune system and make you more vulnerable to infections? The evidence is lacking
Our Eco-immunology Deputy Branch Lead Professor Sheena Cruickshank writes in The Conversation about the large wave of respiratory tract infections over the past two months in countries like the UK and the US, which has led some to question whether COVID damages the...
Professor Tracy Hussell takes up British Society of Immunology Presidency
The British Society for Immunology (BSI) welcomed Lydia Becker Institute Director Professor Tracy Hussell as their new President at the Annual General Meeting, held in Liverpool on 6 December.Tracy was elected earlier in the year and takes over the role from outgoing...
Dr Sean Knight awarded a BMA Foundation Long COVID grant
Our Barrier immunology Deputy Branch Lead Dr Sean Knight has been awarded a BMA Foundation J Moulton grant for research into Long COVID.Up to 70 percent of patients hospitalised for COVID-19 pneumonitis have persistent symptoms several months after the acute...
COVID: inhalable and nasal vaccines could offer more durable protection than regular shots
Professor Sheena Cruickshank writes in The Conversation about the potential of inhalable and nasal vaccines to offer more durable protection against COVID-19 than regular shots.While conventional needle-in-your-arm vaccines induce a more systemic immune response,...
The Day Ardwick Stood Still – Ardwick Climate Action
Written by George Adams, Joseph Morris, and Professor Sheena Cruickshank Air pollution is an ever-increasing threat to human health and the environment. Air pollution kills approximately 64,000 people/ year in England. Not only can poor air quality kill you, but it...
How feeding cues and circadian rhythms in IgA converge to regulate the microbiota – Science Immunology
Immune tolerance Branch Lead Dr Matt Hepworth along with co-authors Dr Hugo Penny and Dr Rita Domingues have been published in the September 2022 issue of the prestigious Science Immunology journal with their study investigating how feeding cues and circadian rhythms...
