Immunology

Discovery: Specific Macrophages Affect Crohn's Disease Severity

Crohn's disease, a type of inflammatory bowel disease, is a condition that occurs when your body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. The exact cause of Crohn's disease is unknown.   A new report in the Journ ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2014 - 10:46am

Pesticide-Resistance Of Insects Has Doubled Since 1990

Nature is always looking for new ways to stay ahead. To-date, resistance to pesticides has been recorded in more than 500 insects, 218 weeds, and 190 fungi that attack plants. The recorded cases of resistance in insects, mites and other arthropods, which ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2014 - 9:58am

Nano-Vaccine Spray Requires No Refrigeration

A new type of single-dose vaccine comes in a nasal spray and doesn't require refrigeration. The latest design and testing of these "nanovaccines" sets the stage to dramatically alter the public health landscape because it can get more peopl ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 10:06am

Use Tobacco To Thwart West Nile Virus And Other Infectious Diseases

West Nile virus is spread by infected mosquitoes and targets the central nervous system. It can be fatal disease and there is currently no cure or drug treatment. It has spread across the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.  An international re ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2014 - 8:33pm

Antibiotics A Potential Mechanism For Autoimmunity

The code for every gene includes a message at the end of it that signals the translation machinery to stop but diseases like cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy can result from mutations that insert this stop signal into the middle of an essen ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 3:30am

Unvaccinated Infants Fuel Epidemics

In unvaccinated hotbeds like California and New York, rich elites rely on 'herd immunity' to protect their children- poor families will get the vaccines and protect the rich ones. That's why in those states, easily preventable diseases have ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 8:50pm

Study Helps Unravel The Tangled Origin Of Lou Gehrig's Disease

After playing in every game for some 14 years in baseball, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees- "The Iron Horse"- took himself out of the lineup because his manager wouldn't. He had been dropping balls, unable to get to routine plays, hittin ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2014 - 9:45pm

Antibiotics In Manure Implicated In Human Pathogenic Bacteria In Soil

Researchers have have found that the repeated application of manure contaminated with antibiotics changes the composition of bacteria in the soil. The focus of the investigation was on sulfadiazine (SDZ), a widely used antibiotic in animal husbandry which ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2014 - 10:11am

Elafin Protein Discovery May Mean Treatment For Celiac Disease

The human protein Elafin plays a key role against the inflammatory reaction typical of Celiac disease and researchers have developed a probiotic bacterium able to deliver Elafin in the gut of mice. Celiac disease is an auto-immune pathology that occurs in ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 8:02pm

Ménière's Disease: New Insight Into Rare Inner Ear Condition

Ménière's Disease is a rare condition affecting the inner ear.  It can cause tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo attacks and a feeling of pressure deep within the ear and is a long term but non-fatal illness, making it low profile in scientific community ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 6:30pm