Does COVID change the body’s response to other threats? Depends on your sex
New Haven, Conn. — The long-term effects of infection on the immune system have long intrigued John Tsang, a Yale ...
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When the body’s B cell training grounds stay open after hours
If B cells are the munitions factories of the immune system, manufacturing antibodies to neutralize harmful pathogens, then the tiny ...
Brain discovery holds key to boosting body’s ability to fight Alzheimer’s, MS
UVA Health researchers have discovered a molecule in the brain responsible for orchestrating the immune system’s responses to Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis ...
Disarming the body’s defenders
At a glance: Credit: Harvard Medical School At a glance: New findings offer insight into how certain cancers disarm the immune system ...
Prestigious NSF funding will enable UTSA professor to further demystify body’s metabolic processes
Chemistry professor Aimin Liu has been awarded a three-year, $495,000 Accomplishment-Based Renewal (ABR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance his research ...
Study shows HIV speeds up body’s aging processes soon after infection
HIV has an “early and substantial” impact on aging in infected people, accelerating biological changes in the body associated with ...
COVID-19 fattens up our body’s cells to fuel its viral takeover
RICHLAND, Wash.—The virus that causes COVID-19 undertakes a massive takeover of the body’s fat-processing system, creating cellular storehouses of fat ...
Vital cell machinery behind the human body’s incorporation of selenium seen for the first time
A Rutgers scientist is part of an international team that has determined the process for incorporating selenium – an essential ...
Vitamin D may restore the body’s natural barrier against ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer has one of the highest death rates of all cancers. One reason for this is that the cancer ...
Modifying the body’s immune system to help treat Type 1 diabetes
In a new study, a team of researchers from the University of Missouri, Georgia Tech and Harvard University has demonstrated ...
A single hormone directs body’s responses to low-protein diet
BATON ROUGE, LA. – A single hormone appears to coordinate the lifespan extension produced by a low-protein diet. Credit: Pennington ...
Ultrathin fuel cell uses the body’s own sugar to generate electricity
Glucose is the sugar we absorb from the foods we eat. It is the fuel that powers every cell in ...
New details behind the body’s response to tuberculosis could lead to a more effective vaccine
BOSTON – More than 1.7 billion people—or a quarter of the world’s population—are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterial strain ...
Body’s response to different strains of tuberculosis could affect transmission
Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, ...
Boosting the body’s response to infections with a bio-inspired peptide
Somewhere along the long and winding road of evolution, our ancestors lost the ability to produce a small but mighty ...
Gel fights drug-resistant bacteria and induces body’s natural immune defense
In the fight against multidrug-resistant bacteria, scientists in Sweden have developed a new kind of antibiotic-free protection for wounds that ...
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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Seawater split to produce green hydrogen
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Mount Sinai launches phase 1 US trial of NDV-HXP-S, an Egg-based investigational COVID-19 vaccine, in healthy adults previously immunized against COVID-19
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Dogs’ average age at cancer diagnosis is associated with size, sex, breed
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Face masks cut distance airborne pathogens could travel in half, new study finds
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Increase in marine heatwaves expected to affect organisms at bottom of food chain, study suggests