Medical research

New measurement technique shows link between T-cells and aging

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a correlation between aging and the effectiveness of T-cells, a type of immune cell programmed to fight or kill a threat. ...

Medical research

Discovery helps explain how B cells adapt to their targets

(Medical Xpress)—Over the weeks following an invasion by a disease-causing microbe, the human immune system fine tunes its defenses, producing proteins called antibodies that are ever more precisely targeted at the invader. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Beijing H7N9 bird flu victim leaves hospital (Update)

A seven-year-old girl who contracted the H7N9 strain of bird flu left hospital on Wednesday and appeared before media in an apparent bid by health authorities to cool concerns about the deadly virus.

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