The World Vaccines Congress is coming to Sydney next month

Mesenchymal stem cells are being trialled as a potential treatment for graft-versus-host disease, a common complication of bone marrow transplantation.

The evolutionary history of SARS suggests that bats, and not civet cats, were the original source of the virus.

Immunoregulatory T-cells wane with age in some people, triggering type 1 diabetes.

US researchers identify protein that stops the release of HIV by tethering it to the cell.

LCT is set to start a pig islet transplantation trial for type 1 diabetes that may have a profound effect on the debate over Australia’s xenotransplantation moratorium in 2009.

Mariapia Degli-Esposti’s team at Perth’s Lions Eye Institute is looking closely at why the immune system puts up a good fight against some viral infections but has problems with others.

The Australasian Society for Immunology is holding its annual conference this week. Key note speaker Andreas Strasser will discuss his latest findings on the functions of apoptosis-related proteins in the immune system.

Extra insurance for the Tasmanian devil announced as scientists fear for its future.

A $900,000 multiphoton microscope at Sydney’s Centenary Institute has been unveiled.

A vaccine for fowlpox developed by the CSIRO has been released commercially.