Immunology

Raw Milk Quarantine Lifted- You Still Shouldn't Drink It

I drank raw milk as a kid.  If you were poor and living in the country decades ago, when dairy farmers still had some measure of autonomy from government rules, you probably did too.   It didn't hurt me. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 30 2012 - 5:06pm

Next-Generation Vaccines: Tricking The Immune System

A protein found on the surface of immune cells called dendritic cells recognizes dangerous damage and trauma that could signify infection. Dendritic cells are critical for raising the alarm about the presence of foreign invaders in the body such as viruses ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2012 - 8:30pm

Childhood Obesity Linked To Increased Risk Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma In Adulthood

Childhood obesity is a widespread global epidemic[1] and in parallel with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)[2] is now the leading cause of liver disease among children. New data presented today at the International Liver Congress(TM) 2012 furthers ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 20 2012 - 3:30am

Bats Gave Us Mumps: Multiple Infectious Agents Discovered In 'Virus Reservoir'

Researchers have discovered the probable cause of  several infectious agents at the same time. Paramyxoviruses originate from bats and from there the pathogens have spread to humans and other mammals. In total, the new study tested 9,278 animals for viruse ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2012 - 2:02pm

Margination Gets The Integrated Circuit Treatment To Fix Sepsis

Integrated circuit techniques can do just about anything- perhaps even help cure sepsis. Margination is natural phenomenon where bacteria and leukocytes (white blood cells) move toward the sides of blood vessels. Now it's the inspiration for a novel m ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2012 - 9:31pm

What Poor Africans Need: Anti-Malaria Fashion

Poor people in developing nations have been caught in a cultural tug-of-war over how to best keep them from dying of Malaria.  What they need to break the impasse between anti-science acolytes who think "Silent Spring" had any science in it and c ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2012 - 4:00am

Garra Rufa Fish Pedicures- Complementary Medicine Quackery For Your Toes

Garra rufa- "doctor fish'- are now trendy in some fish pedicure places.  The pedicuree dips their feet (see? I don't specify a gender or make any judgments, I am not Manny Pacquiao) into water containing the fish and the little critters exf ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 16 2016 - 11:24am

Thanks But No Thanks For AIDS Comparison, Say Chagas Disease Experts

"Chagas Disease: “The New HIV/AIDS of the Americas”" screams the headline of an editorial in the open access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, written primarily by two principal investigators of a vaccine against Chagas disease- and it ha ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 4 2012 - 8:20pm

Did Infectious Disease Gene Changes Conquer The Human Evolution Bottleneck?

Around 100,000 years ago, human evolution was in a rut, modern human ancestors consisted of 5-10,000 individuals living in Africa. Yet modern humans somehow emerged from this population bottleneck, expanding dramatically in both number and range, and repla ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2012 - 4:30am

Eurartesim Anti-Malaria Drug Begins Roll Out

Eurartesim(R)- dihydroartemisinin piperaquine (DHA-PQP)- the first artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) has been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria. Eurartesim was developed collaboratively by Sigma ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 5 2012 - 8:30pm