Immunology
- How Lymph Nodes Expand During Disease
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A new paper finds that the same specialized immune cells that patrol the body and spot infections also trigger the expansion of the immune organs known as lymph nodes. The immune system defends the body from infections but can also spot and destroy cancer ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2014 - 5:31pm
- How Gut Bacteria Ensure A Healthy Brain – and Could Play A Role In Treating Depression
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Your second brain? Credit: hey__paul, CC BY By Clio Korn, University of Oxford ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 23 2014 - 6:30am
- How To Build A Powerful Antibiotic
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Antibiotics are a part of nature, as is antibiotic resistance. A study on how a powerful antibiotic agent gets made in nature solved a decades-old mystery and opens up new avenues of research into thousands of similar molecules. The team focused on a clas ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2014 - 8:41pm
- Will The Ebola Epidemic Ever End?
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Not everyone who contracts the Ebola virus dies, the survival rate is actually around 30%, which means some kind of immunity to the disease is possible. Experimental treatments and vaccines against Ebola exist but there was little interest from government ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2014 - 1:31pm
- People Without Symptoms Aren't Going To Give You Ebola- Here Is Why
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Flying by Shutterstock By Stephen Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 28 2014 - 5:31pm
- Despite Ebola Concern, Global Infection Outbreaks Have Been Declining For Decades
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Ebola is causing a lot of concern, a few instances in the United States were enough to lead to calls to overthrow the FDA vaccine approval process and the White House declared that the United States Department of Health and Human Services was unqualified ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2014 - 10:36am
- ABC Transporter Complex: How Cells Defend Themselves Against Antibiotics
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The structure of an asymmetrical ABC transporter complex has been determined with the aid of a high-resolution cryo-electron microscope. ABC transporters cause bacteria and other pathogens to become resistant to antibiotics. They can also help cancer cell ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2014 - 10:17am
- Discovered: Vaccine-Resistant Polio Strain
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A serious epidemic of poliomyelitis that struck the Republic of the Congo in 2010 has been identified as a vaccine-resistant strain of polio. The epidemic affected 445 people in the city of Pointe-Noire, the economic capital of the country, killing almost ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2014 - 1:28am
- Overuse Of Antibiotics Tied To Increase In Clostridium Difficile Infection
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Article - The Conversation - Nov 7 2014 - 11:01am
- Gut Bacteria Implicated In Whether Or Not Your Clothes Fit
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If you read the marketing claims for probiotics and supplements, and an alarming number of papers that have made spurious claims to feed the fad, you might think gut bacteria were the magic bullet for a lot of diseases. A new paper says they even determine ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 10:05am
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