First immune system connectivity map could yield better therapies for cancers, infectious diseases
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have created the first-ever map of immune system connections.
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Newly discovered gut bacteria overproduces histamine, triggering stomach pain in IBS patients
While this has the potential to be a breakthrough in treating abdominal pain related to IBS, not every patient will experience this pain for the same reasons.
How does the immune system know what’s good for the body and what isn’t?
The immune system’s ability to differentiate a strange pathogen from the cells and tissue of the body is because of an immune cell called T-cells.
New therapies could stop antibiotic-induced damage to gut health
Researchers determined the concentrations at which a specific antibiotic would affect certain strains for more than 800 antibiotic–strain combinations.
Saliva serves as vessel for stomach viruses to travel throughout the body
Your saliva carries trillions of microorganisms, and new research points out that stomach viruses also use it as a mode of traveling inside your body. A
Simply looking at food triggers inflammation in the brain, can impair health in overweight people
Just the sight of food triggers an inflammatory response in the brain.
Breast milk antibodies shape infants’ gut bacteria, immunity, study finds
These antibodies can help babies defend against deadly infection-generated diarrheal illness.
Gut microbes play an important role in stopping viral infections. Researchers finally know how
A recent study by researchers in Sweden discovered how the gut microbiome helps the immune system develop resistance to viruses.
Immune system discovery could open doors to treatment that puts peanut allergy in remission
Researchers have identified the key immunological changes that facilitate the remission of peanut allergy in children.
New blood test can predict severe Crohn’s diagnosis up to 7 years in advance, study finds
A group of international researchers say that an antibody detectable in blood can predict severe Crohn’s disease up to seven years prior to diagnosis.