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Daily consumption of pecans has been shown to prevent obesity and a host of related health issues like fatty liver disease and diabetes, according to recent research.

Scientists have identified 14 understudied T-reg proteins that merit increased attention for the molecular roles they play in disease onset.

Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapies used to treat cancer come with the risk of adverse autoimmune responses, including arthritis that can persist for years and require joint replacement surgery.

Based on decades of work to uncover the underlying mechanisms of asthma and other respiratory conditions, researchers have produced a simple, rapid test that can identify the presence of a key driver of severe asthma.

A breath test that can detect SARS-CoV-2 in less than a minute has been developed by researchers.

Biofilms are highly resistant communities of bacteria that pose a major challenge in the treatment of infections.

A study of emerging diseases in the fast-growing capital city of Nairobi shows that pathogens may be more likely to jump from animals to humans in parts of the city with high densities of people, livestock and urban-adapted wildlife such as rats.

The removal of the habitat of a parasite-carrying snail has been shown to reduce the level of infection in the community while also providing feed and compost for farmers, in a trial in Senegal.

Scientists found a new class of molecules that inhibit the efflux pump and make the antibiotic effective again.

Scientists have found that a rise in core body temperature to 39°C, and above, from two hours of exercise in hot conditions can predict the onset of gut damage and the movement of pathogens from the gut into the bloodstream