Despite what you may think, biologists have a favorite worm and when they found out it got sick, they were thrilled, thinking of all the clues it can give them about human infections.The worm in question is the nematode C. elegans, a millimeter-long worm that has been used for decades to study many aspects of biology... |
26 January 2011
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A new study carried out by researchers from the Columbia University, suggests that the immune response during pregnancy can neurologically affect the unborn child.W. Ian Lipkin is the senior author of the study that concluded that the immune response of a pregnant woman's body to viral infections, can trigger su... |
13 October 2010
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Studies conducted on twins have evidenced the fact that an environmental factor may also be at work in the development of diabetes in children who are genetically-predisposed to developing the disease. Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School, in Plymouth, the UK, have established that viral infections, such as th... |
6 March 2009
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Obesity is oftentimes regarded as a disease originating in people's unhealthy lifestyles and diets, and is considered to be one of the most widespread epidemics in the world. The term obesity pandemic itself denotes all the characteristics of transmittable medical condition. Unfortunately, not all physicians adm... |
26 January 2009
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