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Coffee consumption reduces fibrosis risk in those with fatty liver disease

Caffeine consumption has long been associated with decreased risk of liver disease and reduced fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease. Now, newly published research confirms that coffee caffeine consumption reduces ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

SUMO-snipping protein plays crucial role in T and B cell development

When SUMO grips STAT5, a protein that activates genes, it blocks the healthy embryonic development of immune B cells and T cells unless its nemesis breaks the hold, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Newly identified type of immune cell may be important protector against sepsis

Investigators in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Systems Biology have discovered a previously unknown type of immune cell, a B cell that can produce the important growth factor GM-CSF, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cells can influence their own destiny, research finds

In a major shake-up of scientists' understanding of what determines the fate of cells, researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have shown that cells have some control over their own destiny.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The existence of neutrophils in the spleen discovered

For the first time, it has been discovered that neutrophils exist in the spleen without there being an infection. This important finding made by the research group on the Biology of B Cells of IMIM (Hospital ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cell membrane proteins could provide targets for broader vaccines

Vaccines with broader reach might be made by stimulating specialized immune cells to recognize foreign cell membrane proteins that are shared across bacterial species, say researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New study shows how B cells may generate antibodies after vaccination

Steve Reiner, MD, professor of Medicine, and Burton Barnett, a doctoral student in the Reiner lab at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have shown how immune cells, called B ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene therapy helps patients with hemophilia B

(Medical Xpress) -- An experimental gene therapy technique boosted the production of a vital blood clotting factor in six people with hemophilia B, according to new research supported by the National Institutes of Health. ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Intestine crucial to function of immune cells, research shows

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found an explanation for how the intestinal tract influences a key component of the immune system to prevent infection, offering a potential clue to the cause of autoimmune disorders ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research describes advantages of new vaccine adjuvant

New research from the laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth Leadbetter at the Trudeau Institute may lead to a whole new class of vaccines. Dr. Leadbetter's lab has discovered new properties of a potential vaccine adjuvant that suggest ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

B cell receptor inhibitor causes chronic lymphocytic leukemia remission

A new, targeted approach to treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia has produced durable remissions in a Phase I/II clinical trial for patients with relapsed or resistant disease, investigators report at the 53rd Annual Meeting ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers develop a vaccine prototype stronger than traditional vaccines

Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) researchers have created a vaccine that is more potent than traditional vaccines available today. The glycoconjugate vaccine prototype is 100 times more effective than traditional glycoconjugate ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

More intensive chemotherapy dramatically improves recurrence, survival in younger patients with aggressive lymphoma

Younger patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma given a more intensive regimen of chemotherapy combined with rituximab survive significantly longer, and are approximately twice as likely to remain in remission 3 years ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study of flower petals shows evolution at the cellular level

A new study of flower petals shows evolution in action, and contradicts more that 60 years of scientific thought.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dramatic diversity of columbine flowers explained by a simple change in cell shape

Columbine flowers are recognizable by the long, trailing nectar spurs that extend from the bases of their petals, tempting the taste buds of their insect pollinators.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast