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Stem cell therapy can help heal injured heart

Stem cell therapy can help heal injured heart

Researchers discover a stem cell therapy that can help heal injured heart.

30 Nov 2019 6:41 AM

The results of the study were published in the journal of Universita di Trento. (Photo: ANI)

Unhealthy diet kills good gut bacteria

Study discovers unhealthy diet as threat to good gut bacteria.

6 Nov 2019 4:06 AM

It sort of resets your immune system back to sort of a more naive state. (Photo: AFP)

Measles virus much more deleterious than expected

Getting measles 'resets' the body's immune system.

1 Nov 2019 5:20 AM

Various bacterial pathogens can escape our immune system by staying and multiplying within our body cells (intracellularly). (Photo: ANI)

Bacterial pathogens can escape human immune system

Shigella bacteria, which cause diarrhoea, use lipopolysaccharides (LPS) on their surface to block the effector caspases.

25 Dec 2019 5:50 AM

The study demonstrates that individual T cells differ widely and these differences may be clinically significant in the context of a rapidly evolving pathogen such as HIV. (Photo: Pixabay)

Possibility of a HIV vaccine

Researchers recently found new clues that could lead to the development of a vaccine to control HIV.

2 Feb 2019 7:47 AM

If your gut instinct is telling you that there is something seriously wrong with your body, listen o it. Many doctors may dismiss it as being tiredness or fatigue or something more common. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Everything you need to know about auto-immune diseases

Here are the top 10 things one must know about auto-immune diseases, how they work and what can be done to keep the...

21 Jun 2019 1:27 PM

According to the researchers, to help the newborn immune system learn to discriminate between friend and foe, mothers transfer antibodies to their infants via the placenta. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Immune system of new born is transferred from mothers

Here is how mother's immunity transfers to her baby.

17 Jun 2019 4:08 AM

The researchers have a National Institute on Aging grant to do an international study on nearly 100,000 people to try to validate and extend the results. (Photo: AP)

Did you know women's Alzheimer's risk differ from men's?

New clues on why women's Alzheimer's risk differs from men's.

17 July 2019 4:56 AM

Researchers explained that kids who lived in very clean, germ-free conditions during their first years and had less interaction with other children are prone to lymphoblastic leukemia. (Photo: representational/Pixabay)

Strong immune system in children keeps leukemia at bay

Clean, germ-free childhood makes children prone to Leukemia: Study.

6 July 2019 5:45 AM

Since the women affected are mostly young women in their childbearing years, a time when they are traditionally most healthy, getting a diagnosis can prove to be extremely difficult. Symptoms vary widely, notably from one illness to another and even within the same disease.

The enemy within

Other diseases, like systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), affect the whole body.

15 Sept 2019 7:09 PM

Representational Image. (AFP)

How bats carry coronavirus without getting sick

Stresses on bats, such as wet markets, other diseases, and habitat loss, may have a role in coronavirus spilling over to...

7 May 2020 10:42 AM

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Immune system of recovered COVID patients may evolve to fight...

The number of antibodies to fight the virus did not decline even after six months of infection

24 Jan 2021 7:42 AM