Plastic is in our clothes, cars, mobile phones, water bottles and food containers. But recent research adds to growing concerns about the impact of tiny plastic fragments on our health.
Aug 28, 2024
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As researchers estimate that nearly all Americans have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, whether through infection or vaccination, we are no longer "immunologically naive"—in other words, our immune ...
Aug 27, 2024
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In a recent study, researchers found that beliefs and assumptions people have about COVID-19 vaccines seemed to influence their vaccination experience—including side effects and, in some cases, immune response.
Aug 27, 2024
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Fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis is a chronic and progressive interstitial lung disease, caused by an immune response to inhaled foreign antigens or allergens. Researchers from Yale's Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care ...
Aug 27, 2024
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While you're likely familiar with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, you've probably heard less about type 1.5 diabetes.
Aug 27, 2024
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A new study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Boston Children's Hospital and published in Nature Immunology shows how tumors grow by avoiding the immune system.
Aug 26, 2024
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In the late 1960s, three Weizmann Institute of Science researchers developed several protein-like molecules, called copolymers, that they believed would produce a disease similar to multiple sclerosis in laboratory animals. ...
Aug 26, 2024
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The fight against cancer is an arms race, and one of the most effective weapons in clinicians' arsenals is immunotherapy. Immune checkpoint therapy has become the standard for treating several types of cancer. However, the ...
Aug 26, 2024
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered a novel method for incorporating primitive microphages—crucial immune cells—into heart-on-a-chip technology, in a potentially transformative step forward in drug ...
Aug 26, 2024
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Synthetic immunology, an innovative field of research that could lead to fundamentally new approaches and methods in the treatment of infectious diseases and cancer, is the topic of a new article published in Nature Nanotechnology.
Aug 26, 2024
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