Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), which causes division and differentiation of bone marrow cells depending on the body's need for leukocytes, has a significant regulatory effect not only on innate, but also on ...
Oct 31, 2019
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Viruses get a bad rap as potential cancer-causers, but at least one class of viruses that commonly live on human skin—so-called "low-risk" human papillomaviruses—appear to play an unwitting role in protecting us against ...
Oct 30, 2019
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Scientists at the University of East Anglia are pioneering a new way of finding the bacteria and viruses associated with cancer.
Oct 22, 2019
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Malaria is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases: a small mosquito bite delivers numerous malaria parasites into the bloodstream. The human body defends itself valiantly against the parasite, which usually results ...
Oct 21, 2019
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Certain fungi move from the gut to the pancreas, expand their population more than a thousand-fold, and encourage pancreatic cancer growth, a new study finds.
Oct 2, 2019
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Researchers based in Brazil, the United States and Germany have discovered that 12-HEPE, a lipid produced in response to cold by brown adipose tissue in the human body, helps reduce blood sugar. The results of their experiments ...
Sep 30, 2019
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A new study, published in Aging Cell, has found that human ageing processes may hinder cancer development.
Sep 27, 2019
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The heart of both humans and mice does not completely recover after a heart attack. It now turns out that cells close to the area of the heart attack respond to the damage resulting from the heart attack, and that this response ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Twenty people die every day waiting for an organ transplant in the United States, and while more than 30,000 transplants are now performed annually, there are over 113,000 patients currently on organ waitlists. Artificially ...
Sep 6, 2019
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Exercise immediately prior to and during pregnancy restores key tissues in the body, making them better able to manage blood sugar levels and lowering the risk of long term health problems, suggests new research carried out ...
Aug 30, 2019
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