A new study has found that a novel T cell genetically engineered by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers is able to target and attack pathogenic T cells that cause Type 1 diabetes, which could lead to new immunotherapy ...
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To confront the many challenges that infectious diseases pose to mankind head-on, a multi-disciplinary team of bioengineers, materials-scientists and immunologists at Harvard's Wyss Institute has developed a broadly deployable ...
Aug 20, 2020
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The 21st century has already seen multiple major new disease outbreaks, from SARS and MERS to Ebola and Zika, culminating in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The global human suffering, economic damage, and social disruption ...
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The effects of the coronavirus pandemic will be "imprinted on the personality of our nation for a very long time," predicted Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
May 4, 2020
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There are billions of mobile phones in use around the globe. They are present on every single continent, in every single country and in every single city.
Apr 29, 2020
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Vaccines are one of the most successful public health measures of all time, saving millions of lives every year. But how are they made?
Apr 10, 2020
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For researchers investigating Alzheimer's Disease (AD), a devastating neurodegenerative illness afflicting close to 6 million Americans, it is the best and worst of times.
Mar 18, 2020
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Helper T cells play an important role in the immune response against pathogens. The role of a particular subset of these immune cells was previously unclear. It's now been shown that T follicular helper cells live much longer ...
Mar 6, 2020
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A new database PathoPhenoDB facilitates the search for associations between infectious diseases, the pathogens that cause them, the resulting clinical signs and symptoms, and the drugs that can treat them. It also contains ...
Sep 11, 2019
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Researchers have uncovered a crucial link between dietary zinc intake and protection against Streptococcus pneumoniae, the primary bacterial cause of pneumonia.
Aug 22, 2019
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