Health
Can an exhausted lung cell of a smoker fight bacterial infection?
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have discovered how lung cell exhaustion affects a patient's ability to fight diseases.
Nov 1, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Immune receptor provides protective immunity against Group A Streptococcus
Group A Streptococcus (GAS), sometimes known as "flesh-eating bacteria," causes invasive infections that result in high mortality. GAS is susceptible to many antibiotics, but continues to cause devastating infections. Many ...
Oct 31, 2018
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Immunology
Machine learning tool predicts the potential of peptides as immune activators
The immune system keeps T cells under control by regulating precisely when they can respond to a pathogen. For instance, helper T cells only turn "on" if other immune cells, such as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) present ...
Oct 23, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers cure drug-resistant infections without antibiotics
Biochemists, microbiologists, drug discovery experts and infectious disease doctors have teamed up in a new study that shows antibiotics are not always necessary to cure sepsis in mice. Instead of killing causative bacteria ...
Oct 17, 2018
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Immunology
Cell death protein also damps inflammation
Inflammation is one strategy your body uses to fight infection, but if it gets out of control it can kill instead of heal. In the Sept. 18 issue of Immunity, UConn Health immunologist Vijay Rathinam and colleagues show how ...
Oct 1, 2018
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Genetics
Antibiotics or not? Improved method of diagnosing infection may soon help doctors decide
Researchers have found a novel way to diagnose and manage patients with fever. How? Through new biomarkers that can tell the difference between bacterial and viral infection.
Aug 21, 2018
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Immunology
The medicine of the future against infection and inflammation?
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, have in collaboration with colleagues in Copenhagen and Singapore, mapped how the body's own peptides act to reduce infection and inflammation by deactivating the toxic substances ...
Aug 13, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Novel PET tracer successfully images cardiovascular infections
A novel positron emission tomography (PET) tracer has been developed that can accurately image cardiovascular infections, which are extremely dangerous and have a high fatality rate. The research was presented at the 2018 ...
Jun 25, 2018
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Cardiology
New cellular pathway helps explain how inflammation leads to artery disease
Investigators have identified a new cellular pathway that may help explain how arterial inflammation develops into atherosclerosis—deposits of cholesterol, fats and other substances that create plaque, clog arteries and ...
Jun 21, 2018
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Genetics
Researchers describe a new regulatory mechanism for salmonella virulence with small RNA fragments
A series of small RNA fragments are the regulator factors involved in a new control mechanism for salmonella virulence, a pathogenic bacterium which causes bacterial gastroenteritis with a high incidence –more than 100,000 ...
Jun 8, 2018
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