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Immunity
Immunity: is the balanced state of multicellular organisms having adequate biological defenses to fight infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion, while having adequate tolerance to avoid allergy, and autoimmune diseases.
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JUN 22, 2016Microbiology
Summer means mosquitoes. Mosquitoes mean itchy mosquito bites. Those itchy bites aren’t just a nuisance, they actu ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUN 22, 2016Immunology
Scientists say they have a clearer picture of how Zika virus infects a developing fetus, migrating from the mo ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JUN 21, 2016Videos
Our bodies have to use barriers to protect us from our environment at all times. In the gut mucosa, special cells reinfo ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 21, 2016Immunology
Current vaccines target only a small percentage of the more than 90 strains of the bacteria that cause pneumonia. But re ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JUN 20, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
A new way to detect antibodies in blood opens the door to developing simple diagnostic tests for diseases for which ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)JUN 18, 2016Microbiology
In a new issue, Science Translational Medicine presents two related papers that demonstrate variations in the gut microb ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 17, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
A trial of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology has been proposed for use in a human patient. The National Institute ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 17, 2016Immunology
The summer of 2015 in the South Bronx, New York City saw the worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease the city had ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 15, 2016Immunology
When you think about how cancer cells continue to develop ways grow and spread despite both the body’s and medicin ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 14, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers at two German research facilities, the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) and Helmholtz Zentrum M ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 14, 2016Immunology
Scientists learn more everyday about the complex and unique population of microbes in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tr ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 13, 2016Microbiology
A new material has been created by researchers in Singapore that kills E. coli bacteria in 30 seconds. As antibiotic res ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 13, 2016Neuroscience
Stem cells are sometimes seen as either controversial or lifesaving, depending on what they are being used for, but a ne ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 11, 2016Microbiology
A new vaccine has been developed that allows bacteria to grow inside the body, only actively fighting microbes that caus ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 10, 2016Immunology
A new research study showed different inflammation levels during the second trimester of pregnancy to associate with dif ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 10, 2016Genetics & Genomics
CRISPR-Cas9 is the discovery that took the scientific community by storm, the technology of the century. In a new study ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 09, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
For some patients, bone marrow transplants are one of the few last defenses that could save their lives. But this proced ...JUN 08, 2016Immunology
There’s a protein that signals the immune system not to kill certain cells. This action could be preventing autoim ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 08, 2016Immunology
B cells and T cells are not the only immune cells with memory capabilities, scientists have discovered. Natural Killer ( ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 08, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells in nature have to respond to environmental stimuli with a complex repertoire of responses. In effect, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 08, 2016Neuroscience
It’s been known for a while that plaques of the protein amyloid beta are part of the pathology of Alzheimer’ ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 07, 2016Immunology
There’s a newfound hope in immunotherapies for cancer, and it’s a drug called nivolumab. On the market under ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 07, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Long regions of seemingly unimportant strands of DNA were named ‘junk DNA’ and long thought to be unimportan ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 06, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
A web service named GAM (Genes and Metabolites) by its developers is now available to the public for use. The program wa ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
JUN 22, 2016
Microbiology
Summer means mosquitoes. Mosquitoes mean itchy mosquito bites. Those itchy bites aren’t just a nuisance, they actu
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUN 22, 2016
Immunology
Scientists say they have a clearer picture of how Zika virus infects a developing fetus, migrating from the mo
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JUN 21, 2016
Videos
Our bodies have to use barriers to protect us from our environment at all times. In the gut mucosa, special cells reinfo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 21, 2016
Immunology
Current vaccines target only a small percentage of the more than 90 strains of the bacteria that cause pneumonia. But re
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JUN 20, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
A new way to detect antibodies in blood opens the door to developing simple diagnostic tests for diseases for which
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JUN 18, 2016
Microbiology
In a new issue, Science Translational Medicine presents two related papers that demonstrate variations in the gut microb
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 17, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
A trial of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology has been proposed for use in a human patient. The National Institute
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 17, 2016
Immunology
The summer of 2015 in the South Bronx, New York City saw the worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease the city had
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 15, 2016
Immunology
When you think about how cancer cells continue to develop ways grow and spread despite both the body’s and medicin
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 14, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers at two German research facilities, the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) and Helmholtz Zentrum M
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 14, 2016
Immunology
Scientists learn more everyday about the complex and unique population of microbes in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tr
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 13, 2016
Microbiology
A new material has been created by researchers in Singapore that kills E. coli bacteria in 30 seconds. As antibiotic res
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 13, 2016
Neuroscience
Stem cells are sometimes seen as either controversial or lifesaving, depending on what they are being used for, but a ne
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 11, 2016
Microbiology
A new vaccine has been developed that allows bacteria to grow inside the body, only actively fighting microbes that caus
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 10, 2016
Immunology
A new research study showed different inflammation levels during the second trimester of pregnancy to associate with dif
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 10, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
CRISPR-Cas9 is the discovery that took the scientific community by storm, the technology of the century. In a new study
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 09, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
For some patients, bone marrow transplants are one of the few last defenses that could save their lives. But this proced
...
JUN 08, 2016
Immunology
There’s a protein that signals the immune system not to kill certain cells. This action could be preventing autoim
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 08, 2016
Immunology
B cells and T cells are not the only immune cells with memory capabilities, scientists have discovered. Natural Killer (
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 08, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells in nature have to respond to environmental stimuli with a complex repertoire of responses. In effect,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 08, 2016
Neuroscience
It’s been known for a while that plaques of the protein amyloid beta are part of the pathology of Alzheimer’
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 07, 2016
Immunology
There’s a newfound hope in immunotherapies for cancer, and it’s a drug called nivolumab. On the market under
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 07, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Long regions of seemingly unimportant strands of DNA were named ‘junk DNA’ and long thought to be unimportan
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 06, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
A web service named GAM (Genes and Metabolites) by its developers is now available to the public for use. The program wa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch