Damage from a heart attack comes from brain signals, mouse study suggests
Heart damage caused by a myocardial infarction is exacerbated by activation of a heart–brain–immune axis.Credit: Sevolod Zviryk/Science Photo…
Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why
Amyloid plaques (light pink; artist’s illustration) speckle neurons in a brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease.Credit: Artur Plawgo/Science Photo…
Why is flu so bad this year? Highly mutated variant offers answers
A person is vaccinated against influenza, which is causing high numbers of illnesses and hospitalizations in the United…
why some people die from typically harmless germs
Michael Levin had just started working as a paediatric infectious-disease doctor in London when he received an urgent…
Some of your cells are not genetically yours — what can they tell us about life and death?
Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism is Redefining Human Identity Lise Barnéoud, transl.…
how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity
Every summer, Aubree Gordon, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, spends about a month…
mRNA therapy turns back the clock
As people age, immune cells called T cells tend to decline both in quantity and in quality. Credit:…
Antibodies and T cells join forces for sustained HIV remission – Nature
Antibodies and T cells join forces for sustained HIV remission NatureSmall study shows a promising path toward HIV cure The…
Epigenetic editing enables safer and more effective T cell therapies
Arc Institute, Gladstone Institutes, and University of California, San Francisco, scientists have developed an epigenetic editing platform that…
Swapping old immune cells in the brain with fresh ones could treat disease
After a mouse received treatment to eliminate immune cells called microglia, it was injected with human progenitor cells…
US eosinophilic oesophagitis market to reach $1.19bn by 2030
The eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) market in the US is forecast to grow from $202 million in 2020 to…
Researchers find CFI deficiency alarmingly high in old order Amish
Researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Clinic for Special Children found that complement factor…