Plastic particles harm gut health and immunity in mice, study shows
Scientists have found that tiny plastic particles can accumulate in the intestines of mice and cause damage to their gut health and immune system.
Dec 22, 2023
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Scientists have found that tiny plastic particles can accumulate in the intestines of mice and cause damage to their gut health and immune system.
Dec 22, 2023
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Vaccine development aims at protecting as many people as possible from infections. Short protein fragments of pathogens, so-called epitopes, are seen as a promising new approach for vaccine development.
Dec 20, 2023
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Sepideh Dolatshahi, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia, is spearheading an exploration of systems immunology in its crucial development phase—during pregnancy.
Dec 16, 2023
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Following the announcement of the WHO call to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem in 2020, there has been encouraging global progress in implementing and expanding Human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization, ...
Dec 14, 2023
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Mice with human immune cells are a new way of testing anti-cancer drugs targeting the immune system in pre-clinical studies. Using their new model, a Kobe University research team successfully tested a new therapeutic approach ...
Dec 14, 2023
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Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have identified a potential mechanism by which tobacco smoking drives a type of white blood cell known as monocytes to the lung where they can increase the risk of active ...
Dec 13, 2023
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Researchers have discovered a novel mechanism whereby the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, can vary its mode of infection in human cells. In work published in the journal eLife, a team from the University of Minnesota ...
Dec 5, 2023
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COVID-19 cast a glaring spotlight on the devastating impact that infectious diseases can have on human health and society. At the height of the global pandemic, most of the world came to a standstill, and millions of lives ...
Dec 5, 2023
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A 36-year-old Brazilian man made headlines around the world in 2020 for being the first person to be putatively cured of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) using an easily accessible and well-tolerated drug cocktail.
Dec 1, 2023
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Each year, tuberculosis (TB) kills more people than any other infectious disease, falling out of the top spot only temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nov 29, 2023
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