Delayed immune responses may make COVID-19 deadly for elderly people
Delayed immune responses may make COVID-19 more deadly for elderly people – and it may kill more men because their
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The neurons that connect stress, insomnia, and the immune system
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Stanford University have pinpointed the circuit in the brain that is responsible
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‘Good progress’, but don’t expect first Covid-19 vaccinations until early 2021: WHO expert Mike Ryan
Researchers are making “good progress” in developing vaccines against COVID-19, with a handful in late-stage trials, but their first use
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The immune system facilitates alcohol addiction
The activation of the immune system could eventually perpetuate some of the deleterious effects of alcohol, like addiction. This is
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How the immune system reacts to hepatitis C viruses
If a virus penetrates a cell, the immune system reacts immediately and produces the signaling protein interferon. This protein activates
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Pain, but not as we know it: Neuropathic pain and the immune system
There are three main types of pain: nociceptive pain, the type we’re most familiar with, from bee stings and ankle
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How sleep can boost your immune system and help you fight off illness
In a global pandemic it’s really important that we do everything we can to keep our bodies as healthy as
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Newly discovered immune cells contribute to toxic shock
Recently discovered immune cells called MAIT cells play a key role in group A streptococcal toxic shock, researchers at Karolinska
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Drug shows promise as immune therapy for cancer
A therapy developed by Yale researchers stimulates immune cells to shrink or kill tumors in mice, according to a new
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Molecule in the immune system triggers ‘cancer suicide’ in the lab
Hope of a new cancer treatment as scientists discover molecule found naturally in the immune system can trigger the ‘suicide’
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