Medical research
Life-threatening condition in preemies linked to blood type
Many premature infants suffer a life-threatening destruction of intestinal tissue called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
Nov 21, 2011
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
The first-in-man clinical trial targeting Alzheimer's Tau protein
For the first time, targeting the other feature of Alzheimer's disease, tau, has given fruitful results. In an unprecedented study, active vaccination in humans has resulted in a favorable immune response in 29 out of the ...
Dec 12, 2016
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Immunology
Uncovering the mysteries of milk allergy
Cow's milk allergy is the most common type of food allergy in children—it's also the weirdest.
Oct 24, 2023
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Neuroscience
How the immune system can alter our behavior
Simply the smell of seafood can make those with an allergy to it violently ill—and therefore more likely to avoid it. The same avoidance behavior is exhibited by people who develop food poisoning after eating a certain ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavac COVID-19 vaccine safe in children and adolescents and triggers antibodies
Two doses of CoronaVac are safe and provoke a strong antibody response among children and adolescents aged 3-17 years, according to a randomised controlled trial of 550 young people published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases ...
Jun 29, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Tick spit protein may trigger allergic reactions
Ticks have had millions of years to figure out how to bite without triggering their victims' immune response. Proteins in the arachnids' spit evolved to manipulate immune cells so that the bloodsuckers can suck blood and ...
Sep 25, 2015
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Immunology
New approach tests the strength of immunity
The immune system orchestrates large and small scale attacks on innumerous targets: viruses, bacteria, cancer, but it also misfires causing allergy or autoimmune reactions. Compounding the problem, not every immune reaction ...
Oct 27, 2016
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Medical research
Preferable treatment for MS found in allogenic bone marrow stem cells
Multiple sclerosis (MS), an inflammatory autoimmune disease affecting more than one million people worldwide, is caused by an immune reaction to myelin proteins, the proteins that help form the myelin insulating substance ...
Dec 18, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus treatments: keep your eye on anti-complement drugs—they look promising
Although the vaccine cavalry is finally coming over the hill, the need for better drugs to treat those with COVID-19 remains.
Nov 17, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Team finds biomarkers to diagnose serious kidney allergic reaction
A team led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers says it has identified two protein biomarkers in urine that may one day be used to better diagnose acute interstitial nephritis (AIN), an underdiagnosed but treatable kidney ...
May 16, 2019
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