A new study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have identified a distinct pattern of gene expression in immune cells from people who experience chronically high levels of loneliness.The researchers say that their findings link social isolation to alterations in the activity of genes that drive inflammation, the first response of [...]
A new study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have identified a distinct pattern of gene expression in immune cells from people who experience chronically high levels of loneliness.The researchers say that their findings link social isolation to alterations in the activity of genes that drive inflammation, the first response of [...]
Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have discovered a human protein, radical radial spoke protein 44 (RSP44), which can offer insight into immune infertility - a disorder in which immune systems wage war on sperm in both men and women
Pigs may soon become donors of insulin-producing islet cells to cure humans afflicted by insulin dependent diabetes, if a University of Minnesota researcher is to be believed.Dr. Bernhard Hering, Scientific Director of the Diabetes Institute for Immunology & Transplantation at the university, will present his findings on pig islet xenotransplantation at the Diabetes Research and [...]
Scientists have identified a way to develop a vaccine against Chlamydia trachomatis, the most prevalent sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the world.Boffins identified plasmid-deficient derivatives of the Chlamydia trachomatis strains that when investigated in an animal model of genital tract infection, failed to cause disease.
The researchers now believe that this may serve as a vaccine [...]