Health
US recommends routine HPV vaccination for boys
US health authorities on Friday urged all boys age 11-12 to get a routine vaccination against the most common sexually transmitted disease, human papillomavirus, or HPV.
Feb 3, 2012
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News tagged with immune defense
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E-cigarette use can alter hundreds of genes involved in airway immune defense
When we smoke cigarettes, dozens of genes important for immune defense are altered in the epithelial cells that line the respiratory tract. Several of these changes likely increase the risk of bacterial infections, viruses, ...
Jun 20, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists have discovered how mosquitoes develop viral immunity
(Medical Xpress)—Published online in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the team from CSIRO's Australian Animal Health Laboratory, in Geelong, have shown Vago, a protein previously identified ...
Oct 3, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Making cancer stem cells visible to the immune system
Leukemia stem cells protect themselves against the immune defense by suppressing a target molecule for killer cells. This protective mechanism can be tricked with drugs. In the journal Nature, scientists from Basel, Tübingen ...
Jul 17, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
High virus count in the lungs drives COVID-19 deaths
A buildup of coronavirus in the lungs is likely behind the steep mortality rates seen in the pandemic, a new study finds. The results contrast with previous suspicions that simultaneous infections, such as bacterial pneumonia ...
Aug 31, 2021
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Medical research
New research investigates how the common 'cat parasite' gets into the brain
A new study demonstrates for the first time how the Toxoplasma gondii parasite enters the brain to influence its host's behavior. This research was led by researchers from the Karolinska Institute and Uppsala University in ...
Dec 6, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Common cold combats COVID-19
Exposure to the rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, can protect against infection by the virus which causes COVID-19, Yale researchers have found.
Jun 15, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
How 'paralyzed' immune cells can be reactivated against brain tumors
Brain tumor cells with a certain common mutation reprogram invading immune cells. This leads to the paralysis of the body's immune defense against the tumor in the brain. Researchers from Heidelberg, Mannheim and Freiburg ...
May 24, 2021
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Immunology
Artificial intelligence model predicts which key of the immune system opens the locks of coronavirus
With an artificial intelligence (AI) method developed by researchers at Aalto University and University of Helsinki, researchers can now link immune cells to their targets and for example uncouple which white blood cells ...
Apr 22, 2021
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Trudeau Institute reports new approach to treating Listeria infections
Research underway at the Trudeau Institute could lead to new treatments for people sickened by Listeria and other sepsis-causing bacteria. Dr. Stephen Smiley's laboratory has published a study in the scientific journal Infection ...
Oct 17, 2011
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