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The dog may be man's best friend, but sometimes this can be true in ways you would not have expected. A new research published in the European Respiratory Journal shows that young kids having a pet dog may have a stronger immune system that could protect them against asthma and other allergies. The team, led by ... |
7 May 2008
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Tattoos have been part of human culture for thousands of years. But in the last century, the practice spread worldwide. A tattoo says a lot about you and your life history. And a German team has found that tattoos may be more than that: they could represent the best method of delivering vaccines. The research publish... |
7 February 2008
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You have heard about blood groups. And you've been told about blood incompatibility: put A, B or AB blood type into an O type receiver, and you will kill him/her. But this new case published in The New England Journal of Medicine has amazed the scientific world and it is an absolute first.A 15 years old Australi... |
25 January 2008
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We used to sleep on bed mattresses made of more or less natural untreated stuff. But now, they tell you that you ain't cool, man, if you do not have a visco-elastic polyurethane foam (also called memory foam) mattress. They say this is the technological revolution in your bed, the Star Trek dream in your bedroom... |
22 January 2008
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The skunk working next to you at the office may have an explanation: he may be depressed! A team from Tel Aviv University, in a research published in the journal "Arthritis and Rheumatism", has found a connection between depression and lowered sense of smell. "Our scientific findings suggest that women who are depr... |
7 January 2008
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Cocaine is deadlier than many viruses. And it surely destroys more lives. So, why not a vaccine against it? This is the aim of a couple of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston: the first-ever medication against cocaine addiction. "For people who have a desire to stop using, the vaccine should be very... |
3 January 2008
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We live in a world of synthetic chemicals. They are found from our food to all the objects around us. Many of them are toxic. And some can trigger what is called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). For example, you may say you live in a healthy countryside, but the pesticides they throw in the neighboring crop field... |
18 December 2007
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Biologists thought for long that only vertebrates have complex adaptive immune systems that allow them to fight against many germs after just one infection. But the concept has changed in the last years, as many insects too have been found to have an immune memory that defends them against reinvasion by a microbe the... |
4 December 2007
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Science goes deeper into the cellular universe. A team at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has come with a new research published in the peer-reviewed, open-access journal PLoS Biology the structure of the largest cellula... |
28 November 2007
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Our immune system should get rid of any strange body in our organism. Yet, tumors manage to somehow go undetected by the immune system and this is why it does not take action. Normally, the immune cells form an inflamed area surrounding a dangerous pathogen or injury which signals to the whole immune system the issue... |
20 November 2007
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He may have inspired the Treebeard from "Lord of the Rings". But how did he get in this situation?First, it's about the human papillomavirus (HPV), a common human virus, is known especially as a leading cause of warts and cancer. It is also the main cause of cervical cancer (in uterus) (95 % of the cases). Due t... |
19 November 2007
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People are said to be 'social monkeys' and loneliness inflicts severe effects on them. Far beyond what we've imagined, a new research shows that loneliness changes the expression of certain genes, so that chronically lonely people have less effective immune systems and are more exposed to infections. T... |
8 October 2007
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It seems that the future generations will live in a 100 % sterile plastic box, spending all day playing computer games and watching television. But these behaviors in children nowadays seem to lower their immune system, making them more prone to infections and diseases. It is a combination between many parents' ... |
2 October 2007
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Health is wealth. Gold dust could be the new powerful anti-cancer weapon, transporting drugs hidden from the body's immune cells into tumors. Drug molecules have been attached to gold particles of just a fraction of the diameter of a human hair, so tiny that they can sneak blood's white cells without being ... |
25 September 2007
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Contaminants, stress and other factors brought by modern life are blamed for the increasing rates of infertility, but few have heard about immune infertility, a quite common cause of couple sterility. Immune infertility is amongst the 80 autoimmune disorders discovered so far and the best known are Multiple Sclerosis... |
13 September 2007
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In the race for an anti-HIV vaccine, scientists have just opened another chapter, discovering the molecular mechanisms that make a few antibodies effective against HIV, while most of them fail. Vaccines have been fighting for long successfully against many infectious diseases, but scientists still do not know how exa... |
7 September 2007
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Seafood appears to hold the secret for a safe space journey. A team from Harvey Mudd College (HMC) in California and the University of Louisville, collaborating with bioengineering and biomaterials company BioSTAR West, is investigating a chemical encountered in shrimp and lobster shells that could protect injured as... |
24 July 2007
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Our immune system cannot be turned on or off like a light switch. On the contrary, it responds to an invasion of bacteria, viruses or parasites through a combination of defensive weapons which adapt smoothly to the situation. The simplest reaction of the immune system is for example that triggered by a mosquito bite:... |
16 July 2007
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This is the agony of the medical world: finding a cure or a vaccine against HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). Now, the latest hit against the virus is an experimental drug that suppressed it to undetectable levels in people with highly drug-resistant strains. The new chemical, TMC125 (etravirine), is the first of i... |
6 July 2007
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It is easy to blame it on the woman, but in 40 % of the couples, the man is the sterile part. Now, a team at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research found an immune factor that regulates human semen, inducing fertility or sterility in a man. The macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) appears to be crucial ... |
2 July 2007
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HIV has been rampant in Africa from the early '80s. More than 20 years ago, the disease appeared in Nairobi (Kenya), infecting 90% of the city's lower-class prostitutes; but some women practicing this "business" for over 13 years have not developed AIDS. Not having AIDS symptoms is not so shocking, since HI... |
27 June 2007
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The classical concept states that HIV gradually decreases the body's immune ability to fight infection. But a new research proves that this principle is wrong, turning upside-down all the researches in the field. HIV is known to attack the human immune cells called T helper cells. Their loss can occur over many... |
26 June 2007
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You may have a healthy sexual life, but a simple mosquito bite could trigger something similar to AIDS. Especially if you're in Africa and have never had malaria before. A new study points to the fact that a protein released by the malaria parasite can trigger an aggressive and horrendous type of cancer called ... |
12 June 2007
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Starting from the more common term IQ, the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) has formulated the term "AQ" for Autoimmune Quotient. Just like the intelligence, AQ is also inherited. To assess your family's AQ, here are some clues:1. There are 23.5 million Americans with autoimmune diseases ... |
25 May 2007
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Marsupials and placental mammals ( humans included) had a common ancestor about 180 million years ago, during the Jurassic era (middle dinosaur epoch) and chose very different reproductive paths: marsupials rear their offspring externally, sometimes in a pouch, while placental mammals deliver well developed youngst... |
10 May 2007
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People were for long puzzled by the severe effects of some blood transfusions, till scientists discovered in 1900 the ABO system. Since then, the blood is assigned into four groups based on the presence or absence of antigenic inherited molecules on the surfaces of red blood cells. "Group A has an enzyme that puts a ... |
6 April 2007
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The secret of the British vigor may stay in the tea: green tea has been already linked to induce positive effects on a large array of diseases, including heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's.But now researchers say that the consume of green tea could help in the fight against HIV. A joint British-American resea... |
30 March 2007
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The transplant techniques have advanced substantially, but not so the number of donors. Due to the huge shortage of donor organs, researchers have been looking for methods of transplanting animal organs across different species (a method named "xenotransplantation"), with the main goal of employing animal organs for ... |
29 March 2007
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