Acute stress may be detrimental to fighting off COVID-19 and influenza
Acute stress can be detrimental to fighting off infection, especially COVID-19, and increases the chance of dying in mouse models.
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Acute stress can be detrimental to fighting off infection, especially COVID-19, and increases the chance of dying in mouse models.
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Research from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center could provide a new approach to treating an aggressive form of breast cancer.
May 12, 2022
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A collaboration between researchers at Duke University and Harvard Medical School has shown that mice receiving a booster shot in the same limb resulted in stronger adaptive immunity than a shot in another limb. In their ...
It is well established that older adults are more susceptible to infection and their immune systems less capable of generating a strong immune response. Now, a new University of Arizona Health Sciences-led paper explains ...
May 4, 2022
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A team led by Northwestern Medicine investigators has discovered differences in the distribution and interaction of T-cells within the microenvironment of different regions of both brain tumors and brain metastases, according ...
Apr 15, 2022
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To quote veteran science writer Ed Yong's simple yet extremely accurate words in The Atlantic, "The immune system is very complicated." As the COVID-19 pandemic had made abundantly clear, science still doesn't fully understand ...
Mar 15, 2022
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Antibodies generated by COVID-19 vaccines are more suited to recognizing viral variants than antibodies that arise from natural infection, according to a study by researchers at Stanford Medicine.
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For at least six months after COVID-19 vaccination, antibodies produced by immune cells become steadily more formidable and more precisely targeted against the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a study of the antibody ...
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The first two vaccines created with mRNA vaccine technology—the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines—are arguably two of the most effective COVID vaccines developed to date. In clinical trials, both were more ...
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In the past decade, immunotherapy has helped save the lives of many cancer patients, many with lung cancer, who might have otherwise faced almost certain death sentences. However, only about 20% of patients who received immune ...
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