Collaborate Disseminate
According to the American Cancer Society, around 150,000 new cases of rectal and colon cancer are diagnosed each year. And while the number is slowly trending downward, thanks to an increase in pre-emptive age-related screening, it’s still the third bi… Continue reading In a world first, scientists discover ‘roadmap’ to beating bowel cancer
Hospitals are meant to be places of healing, but patients often pick up new infections there that are potentially dangerous and hard to treat. A new, experimental vaccine given on arrival to hospital could help prevent infections from a range of drug-r… Continue reading Experimental type of vaccine could prevent hospital-acquired infections
Does early childhood exposure to a broad variety of germs and bacteria make one less likely to develop asthma and allergies? A new animal study challenges this popular idea, finding diverse microbial exposure when young may have little effect on allerg… Continue reading New findings challenge ‘hygiene hypothesis’ behind allergy development
Researchers investigating how specialized immune cells called killer T cells change over the course of our lives have found that, in older age, these cells are replaced by less effective versions that struggle to fight viral invaders. The world-first d… Continue reading Immune cells replaced by suboptimal versions in older adulthood
According to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, 1.6 million Americans have irritable bowel disease (IBD), with the numbers increasing each year. Around 70,000 new cases are diagnosed annually.
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Continue reading Immune cell discovery offers hope for irritable bowel disease sufferers
A new study has found that even moderate exposure to nicotine-free vapor from e-cigarettes can literally stop neutrophils, the body’s frontline immune cells, in their tracks, reducing their ability to fight off foreign invaders. The researchers say the… Continue reading Vaping with or without nicotine freezes frontline immune cells
Chitin, which provides crucial exoskeletal structure and protection to soft-bodied arthropods such as crustaceans, spiders and insects, may have a surprising role in being able to modulate metabolism and fight weight gain in mammals.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading A novel obesity treatment could lie in the exoskeletons of crabs, bugs
Researchers have discovered that lung-based immune cells can be “trained” to remember a previously encountered pathogen, making them more efficient at clearing out the cellular debris that accumulates during infection and reducing inflammation.Continue… Continue reading Lung immune cells “trained” to remove debris that causes inflammation
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating inflammatory autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). While sufferers can experience long periods of remission where common symptoms such as motor control and fatigue can subside as MS … Continue reading Amping up natural mechanism self-repairs nerves to alleviate MS symptoms
For many, the idea of having a few dozen hookworms set up shop in your gut sounds more like a Survivor challenge than a beneficial health therapy, but scientists see a bright future in this human worm farm for treating many chronic conditions.Continue … Continue reading Hookworms successfully prevent type 2 diabetes in human trial