A new study from King's College London has identified the potential of a cell type known as a telocyte to be used to manage the effects of periodontitis.
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Inflammation and increased mucus production are typical symptoms of worm infections and allergies. This immune response involves our innate immune cells, but their exact functions are not yet fully understood. A research ...
Nov 2, 2022
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Vaccines work their magic by effectively creating immune cells that are long lived, often for over decades. These immune cells create both a protective barrier that can prevent or minimize re-infection and a memory that allows ...
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Elderly Singaporeans who are above 60 years old develop weaker vaccine-acquired immunity against COVID-19 upon receiving two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine, in comparison to their younger counterparts. These ...
Oct 12, 2022
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The human brain is probably the most complex organ in the entire living world and has long been an object of fascination for researchers. However, studying the brain, and especially the genes and molecular switches that regulate ...
Oct 7, 2022
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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication associated with various diseases and particularly affects patients on intensive care units. However, the mechanisms underlying AKI are incompletely understood. Just recently, ...
Oct 5, 2022
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Researchers led by Ludwig Lausanne's Anoek Zomer, Davide Croci and Johanna Joyce described in a June publication in iScience their development of a multimodal imaging platform to explore, over extended periods, the changing ...
Sep 20, 2022
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In a novel approach, a new study at SISSA uses technology that can activate individual nerve cells with a light impulse. This targeted, non-invasive approach can be used for fundamental studies into the nervous system as ...
Aug 12, 2022
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If you compare the brain of someone who has died from neurodegenerative disease to that of a healthy person, you can't miss the difference: In the case of severe Alzheimer's, the brain will be noticeably smaller, with large ...
Jul 28, 2022
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In a presentation today at AIDS 2022, the 24th International AIDS Conference in Montreal, scientists with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' (NIAID) Vaccine Research Center (VRC) and their collaborators ...
Jul 27, 2022
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