A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce antibodies that can target many variants of the virus. Traditional approaches haven’t worked — largely because HIV…
Category: 5. Health
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Particles carrying multiple vaccine doses could reduce the need for follow-up shots
Around the world, 20 percent of children are not fully immunized, leading to 1.5 million child deaths each year from diseases that are preventable by vaccination. About half of those underimmunized children received at least one vaccine dose but…
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Asians made humanity’s longest prehistoric migration and shaped the genetic landscape in the Americas
An international genomics study led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and Asian School of the Environment (ASE) has shown…
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World’s largest bat organoid platform paves the way for pandemic preparedness
Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world’s most dangerous viruses, including those responsible for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2),…
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Key player in childhood food allergies identified: Thetis cells
A decade ago, a clinical trial in the U.K. famously showed that children who were exposed to peanuts in the early months of life had reduced risk of developing a peanut allergy compared with children who avoided peanuts.
Now, researchers at…
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Dismantling Medicine’s White Wall Of Silence
Medicine’s White Wall is harmful in more ways than one.
In law enforcement, the “Blue Wall of Silence” refers to the unwritten code among officers that discourages reporting a colleague’s misconduct. The message is clear: if you come…
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Is My Medicine Real—And Safe To Take?
Testing, verification and determining pharmaceutical counterfeiting or fakes of medicines and … More
Imagine this common scenario: You…
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The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated
That fit people have a reduced risk of premature death from various diseases is a recurring result in many studies. New research from Uppsala University shows that people with high fitness levels in their late teens also have a reduced risk of…
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Enzyme identified as an important tumor inhibitor in T-cell lymphomas
Lymphomas belong to the group of malignant diseases of the immune system and mainly affect the organs of the lymphatic system. Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) belongs to the subgroup of non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas and is a rare but aggressive…
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Protein switch turns anti-viral immune response on and off
Even after the COVID-19 pandemic, various new infectious diseases continue to emerge, posing ongoing viral threats that demand robust and sustained immune defenses. However, excessive immune reactions can also harm body tissues, causing…
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