Our immune system is our first line of defense against disease, but it can also play a self-sabotaging role. Technologies designed to bolster, improve, and restore immune system function or, on the flip side, control or suppress undesirable immune function have allowed Pitt researchers to reinvigorate exhausted T cells ...
Neurological diseases and disorders are difficult on both the patient and their support system. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are paving the way with new technologies designed to slow, prevent, or reverse the course of neurodegeneration, including targeting the mitochondria to treat Huntingdon’s Disease and engineering new peptides that work to extend the window for stroke treatment and prevent neuron loss ...
The accumulation of senescent cells with age is believed to contribute to the development of age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and many kinds of cancer; thus, targeting cell-death related processes may hold the key to treating pathologies associated with aging. The ability to restore and rejuvenate adult stem cell function ...
