Medical research
Behind the vaccines: How science is building immunity
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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Human activity to blame for virus spread: study
Diseases such as the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe could become more common as human activity destroys habitats and forces disease-carrying wild animals into ever-closer proximity with us, a major study showed on Wednesday.
Apr 8, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Recreating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens like coronavirus jump species
Nobody yet knows for sure the definitive origins of the newly recognized coronavirus now known as 2019-nCoV that's currently spreading across the globe as a human respiratory pathogen. Early reports indicate that the source ...
Mar 31, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus might cause loss of smell—but it probably won't be permanent
Reports from South Korea, China and Italy say losing the sense of smell and taste may be a symptom of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Specialists in the UK have suggested the loss of smell, also ...
Mar 25, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Older people are at more risk from COVID-19 because of how the immune system ages
The rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic is taking a particularly harsh toll on older people.
Mar 19, 2020
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Could disease pathogens be the dark matter behind Alzheimer's disease?
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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Health
Bacteria potentially involved in the development of type 2 diabetes
Bacteria may be involved in the development of type 2 diabetes, according to a study published today in Nature Metabolism by researchers from Université Laval, the Québec Heart and Lung Institute (IUCPQ), and McMaster University.
Mar 9, 2020
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Immunology
Specialized helper cells contribute to immunological memory
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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New next-generation sequencing technique dramatically shortens diagnosis of sepsis
A report in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, published by Elsevier, describes a new technique that uses real-time next-generation sequencing (NGS) to analyze tiny amounts of microbial cell-free DNA in the plasma of patients ...
Mar 5, 2020
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Genetics
Presence of staph bacteria in skin microbiome promotes Netherton syndrome inflammation
Netherton syndrome, a rare skin disease caused by a single genetic mutation, is exacerbated by the presence of two common Staphylococcal bacteria living on human skin, one of which was previously thought to only offer protective ...
Mar 3, 2020
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