News tagged with experimental immunology

What is the function of lymph nodes?

If we imagine our immune system to be a police force for our bodies, then previous work has suggested that the Lymph nodes would be the best candidate structures within the body to act as police stations - the regions in ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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How social contact with sick ants protects their nestmates

In a research article published April 3 in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, Prof. Sylvia Cremer and colleagues at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria show how micro-infections promot ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanopills release drugs directly from the inside of cells

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona researchers developed a new vehicle to release proteins with therapeutic effects. The vehicles are known as "bacteria inclusion bodies", stable insoluble nanoparticles which are found normally ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When did the feather take flight?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some 125 million years ago--more recently than once thought possible -- the molecular structure of the modern feather began to take form, according to molecular dating research by scientists ...

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Vaccine protects against leptospirosis in cattle

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have found that a commercial vaccine is effective against leptospirosis in cattle.

Biology / Other

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

BGI develops RNA-Seq (Quantification) from as low as 100 Ng total RNA

Beijing Genomics Institute reported that they have achieved optimization RNA-Seq (Quantification) library construction with total RNA inputs as low as 100 ng. This breakthrough enables the application of RNA-Seq (Quantification) ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chimpanzees are spontaneously generous after all

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center have shown chimpanzees have a significant bias for prosocial behavior. This, the study authors report, is in contrast to previous studies that positioned ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Chemist contributes to development of novel method for recovering old fingerprints

A Northern Illinois University chemist is part of an international team of scientists whose work might someday crack open cold-case files.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bristol-Myers pitches its cancer medicine pipeline

(AP) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. executives said Monday they have more than a half-dozen drugs in testing against different cancers and could get important data on them and possibly a couple of approvals this year.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene therapy reverses symptoms of Parkinson's disease

A gene therapy called NLX-P101 dramatically reduces movement impairment in Parkinson's patients, according to results of a Phase 2 study published today in the journal Lancet Neurology. The approach introduces a gene into t ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tumor suppressor blocks viral growth in natural HIV controllers

Elevated levels of p21, a protein best known as a cancer fighter, may be involved in the ability of a few individuals to control HIV infection with their immune system alone. In a paper in the April edition of the Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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