News tagged with immune system functions
Sexual healing? Not likely
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study shows the production of sperm is more biologically taxing than previously thought, and expending energy on it has significant health implications.
Jan 30, 2012 |
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New information on the waste-disposal units of living cells
Important new information on one of the most critical protein machines in living cells has been reported by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Researchers develop environmentally friendly process to improve storage stability of probiotics
Probiotic bacteria are rapidly gaining ground as healthy food supplements. However, the production of this "functional food" has its pitfalls: only few probiotic bacterial strains are robust enough to survive conventional ...
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Immune function boosted by life in the wild
Life in a demanding environment with limited resources might be better for the immune system than living in comfort, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
Dec 06, 2010 |
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Researchers find drug-resistant HIV patients with unimpaired immune cells
Mayo Clinic researchers have shown why, in a minority of HIV patients, immune function improves despite a lack of response to standard anti-retroviral treatment. In these cases, researchers say, the virus has lost its ability ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Early role of mitochondria in AD may help explain limitations to current beta amyloid hypothesis
Before Alzheimer's patients experience memory loss, the brain's neurons have already suffered harm for years.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 13, 2010 |
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The link between health and emotions
While the connection between our environment and our emotions has been well explored what is less understood is the profound connection between our emotions and our physical health.
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Researchers study benefits of white button mushrooms
Mushrooms are among the many foods thought to play an important role in keeping the immune system healthy. Now, Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists have conducted an animal-model and cell-culture study showing ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 29, 2010 |
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Out-of-Pocket Costs Put Arthritis Drugs Out of Reach for Some
People with rheumatoid arthritis whose health insurance requires them to pay a higher share of the cost are less likely to use biotech drugs than those with coverage that is more generous. High family medical bills also appear ...
May 21, 2010 |
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Brain tumor growth linked to lowered expression of hundreds of immune function genes
A new study links progression of a lethal type of brain tumor with reduced expression of more than 600 immune system genes, suggesting how complex the immune response is to the cancer and the resulting difficulty in targeting ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Stress during pregnancy may increase offspring's risk of asthma
Stress during pregnancy may raise the risk of asthma in offspring, according to researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The researchers investigated differences in immune function ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Researchers discover biological basis of 'bacterial immune system'
Bacteria don't have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the bugs, they have natural enemies called bacteriophages, viruses that kill half the bacteria on Earth every two days.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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SCID Kids Leading Healthy, Normal Lives 25 Years After 'Bubble Boy'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention the words "bubble boy" and many will recall David Vetter, the kid with big eyes and a thick thatch of dark hair who died 25 years ago after spending almost the entire 12 years of his life in a germ-free, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Alcohol, pregnancy and brain cell death
Rutgers University Professor Dipak Sarkar has received a $3.5 million MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue researching the damaging effects of alcohol on the nervous systems ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 27, 2009 |
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New metabolic safeguards against tumor cells revealed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cells don't like to be alone. In the early stages of tumor formation, a cell might be pushed out of its normal home environment due to excessive growth. But a cell normally responds to this ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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