Cardiology
Heart attack in a dish: a 3-D model
In the U.S., someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds, and yet researchers have not had a model that fully mimics what occurs in the human heart after a heart attack.
Jun 12, 2020
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News tagged with cellular immunity
Oncology & Cancer
Resistance to immunosurveillance favors cluster cancer metastasis
Scientific evidence suggests that cancer can metastasize to other organs when either a single cell or a cluster of cells detaches from the original tumor and travels through the blood to another location, where it grows into ...
Jun 1, 2020
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Immunology
Engineering immunity: Profiling COVID-19 immune responses and developing a vaccine
As COVID-19 looks more like a disease of the immune system, a Michigan engineer is working with doctors to look at how immune responses differ between mild and severe cases.
May 29, 2020
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HIV & AIDS
New HIV vaccine strategy strengthens, lengthens immunity in primates
Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine and several other institutions have shown that a new type of vaccination can substantially enhance and sustain protection from HIV.
May 11, 2020
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Overweight & Obesity
New study shows the effects of obesity mirror those of aging
Globally, an estimated 1.9 billion adults and 380 million children are overweight or obese. According to the World Health Organization, more people are dying from being overweight than underweight. Researchers at Concordia ...
Feb 25, 2020
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Why ageing should be classified as a disease
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, doctors and philosophers have argued whether ageing is a disease or a natural process. Many authors of the Hippocratic Corpus argued that growing old invariably leads to frailty, disability ...
Nov 27, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers learn how Ebola virus disables the body's immune defenses
A new study by researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston uncovered new information on why the Ebola virus can exert such catastrophic effects on the infected person. They've described for the first ...
Oct 24, 2019
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Immunology
Too much of a good thing: Overactive immune cells trigger inflammation
Scientists describe a previously unknown disorder of the immune system: in a distinct subset of immune cells from patients with primary immunodeficiency, cellular respiration is significantly increased. This cellular metabolic ...
Sep 16, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Nanosecond pulsed electric fields activate immune cells
Nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) produce strong electrical effects by focusing a high powered electrical pulse over a very short period of time. They are attracting attention as a method of physically stimulating ...
Aug 7, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Genes and cellular processes that contribute to the pathogenesis of RVVC found
An international team of researchers has identified some of the genes and cellular processes that contribute to the pathogenesis of recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC)—a Candida albicans fungal infection. In their ...
