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Lyme: The First Epidemic Of Climate Change
but ultimately, as the world warms, the ticks reach and survive at higher latitudes and altitudes. Mary Beth Pfeiffer is immune to calls of being a ‘Lyme loony’ and presents a thoroughly researched and extremely well- presented case to raise the banner...
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The key to ‘the vault’
three vaultproteins, creating completely vaultless mice, also led to phenotypically normal mice, albeit with some subtle immune system issues². None of the effects were strong – the vaultless organisms seemed “pretty much fine”, says Rome. Promising...
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The Anti-Ageing Diet
between wild-derived strains and lab-adapted strains is that there are hidden fitness trade-offs. One of these could be the immune system. Does maintaining a complex immune system in the wild, where pathogens abound, come at the expense of lifespan (or,...
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"It's so simple to make brain organoids. There is even a kit you can buy that has everything in it"
in the choroid plexus of patients who have had COVID. Lancaster believes that once this region is infected, the brain’s immune response could be what is causing the variety of neurological symptoms seen in COVID and long COVID. “My theory is that it's...
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Coping with modern life
sugar levels and dilating blood vessels in muscles to prepare the body for immediate action. Cortisol also quietens the immune system, perhaps to prevent inflammation when the body is under stress, and perhaps also because an immune reaction isn’t of...
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Reports
the gap between viral immunology and neurology research. He spoke about the role of inflammation in dementia and how the immune response to certain infections could exacerbate symptoms. Next up Dr Tim Hughes of the same division at Cardiff University...
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Working (a synchrotron) from home
The question really is can you design therapies that can get around the potential problem of a variant virus escaping immune responses? You might, for instance, put additional sugars on to hide some of the sites and focus the immune response elsewhere....
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Replace, reduce, refine
reproducible between tests, operators, laboratories and institutions. The MGIA measures most aspects of the complex host immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and it is easy to manipulate individual components of the assay. This means it is...
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The Rise of the Ancients
of the high-profile CRISPR-Cas gene editing technology has origins routed firmly in studies of the prokaryotic adaptive immune system in both archaea and bacteria that recognise foreign DNA. CRISPR (clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic...
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Accelerating Evolution
within and among amphibian species. Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) peptides play an important role in the innate immune system of vertebrates and a specific MHC allele in the lowland leopard frog has been shown to increase survival of infected...
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Zone 1: Activities and Worksheets
British Society for Immunology This collection of scientifically accurate drawings celebrates the unexpected beauty of our immune system at a tiny scale and includes images of our heroic white blood cells and bacteria and viruses for which we have...
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2020 animal research national statistics released
fish or rats. Regarding experimental procedures, 53% were for the purpose of basic research, most commonly focusing on the immune system, the nervous system, and cancer; 33% were for regulatory purposes - an increase from 26% in 2019; and the remainder...
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Blue Plaques unveiled around the UK
Honor Fell Pioneered the study of living cells and developed the organ culture method. Her most significant work was on the immune system and its role in rheumatoid arthritis. Kate Beckingham, a former PhD student of Dame Honor, spokeat Wychwood School...
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RSB AGM 2025 sees over 400 members in attendance
Council members. This year’s Charter Lecture was then given by Professor Daniel M Davis MBE FMedSci FRSB which focused on immune health and how our genes affect how we respond to pathogens. A lunch was then provided at the Geological Society with the...
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Royal Society of Biology AGM
House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BA, and Zoom. It included a Charter Lecture entitled 'Self Defence: A Myth-busting Guide to Immune Health' by Professor Daniel M Davis MBE FMedSci FRSB, and presentation of the Trustees' Report and Accounts. The agenda and...
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Hunting for 'holes of hope'
high-resolution nanoscale imaging and molecular tools that can identify how phages interact with antibiotics and the immune system at the subcellular level. The clinical safety of phages, particularly compared to some antibiotics, is enviable. Phages...
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MPs quizzed by young scientists at RSB’s Voice of the Future 2025
Darlington opted for personalised medicine, while Dr Lauren Sullivan said the crossover of infectious diseases and the immune system. Many thanks to the Science Minister and Shadow Minister, the MPs and staff from the House of Commons Science,...
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The science of body art
you up’ and helping to make you resistant to colds, flu or any other infections. Nevertheless, people with healthy immune systems may heal faster, making them more likely to get multiple tattoos⁹. We can barely imagine the circumstances surrounding Ötzi...
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Molecular Biology of Cancer: 3rd Edition
there are so many pathways linked to the cell cycle, such as growth control, apoptosis, tumour suppression, metastasis and immune suppression, it is evident that there is an increasing number of locations at which new drugs can act, and gene therapy is...
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Spotlight on: Systems biology
of biological phenomena, which allows the prediction and accurate simulation of extremely complex processes such as the immune response. The ability to model and predict what happens to systems under certain conditions is already having a profound...
