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Fat Cell's Immune Response Makes Obesity Even Worse
NewsNew research shows that adipocytes themselves can unlock a dormant inflammatory potential during obesity that further disrupts a person's metabolism.
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Methane Production From Cattle Reduced by Controlling Their Microbiome
NewsResearchers have learned to control the microbiome of cattle for the first time which could inhibit their methane production, and therefore reduce a major source of greenhouse gasses.
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How Is Climate Change Impacting Parasites?
NewsA recent study explores the ways parasitism will respond to climate change, providing researchers new insights into disease transmission.
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Small Study Demonstrates Sample Inactivation May Lead to SARS-CoV-2 False Negatives
News Jun 03, 2020To protect medical laboratory personnel from infection when testing clinical samples for SARS-CoV-2, most laboratories inactivate the virus before testing. In a recent study, researchers tested several inactivation methodologies to determine if and to what extent they reduce detectable virus in a clinical sample.
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Trial Investigates Unique Formulation of Ibuprofen as Treatment for COVID-19 Respiratory Complication
News Jun 03, 2020A trial is investigating a unique formulation of ibuprofen as a treatment for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a complication of COVID-19.
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Scouring Microbial Metabolic Pathways in the Pursuit of New Therapeutics
News Jun 03, 2020In a new study, researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), in Barcelona, describe a new method for determining active metabolic pathways in microbes using cutting-edge techniques from genomics and proteomics.
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Resistance Genes to Latest Generation of Antibiotics Are Widespread
News Jun 03, 2020Genes representing yet another method of antibiotic resistance are widespread in bacteria that live in the soil and on people, according to a new study.
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Investigating COVID-19 Infection in Blood Cancer Patients
News Jun 03, 2020Researchers have conducted one of the first studies investigating the outcome of COVID-19 infection in patients with blood cancer.
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Our Lifelong Immunity Relies on APRIL
News Jun 03, 2020A new study identified the protein APRIL as a cause for antibody deficiency in humans and as a key regulator of plasmacyte maintenance and lifelong immunoglobulin production.
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COVID-19 Drug Development Could Benefit from Tactics Used To Fight Flu
News Jun 03, 2020A new study reports that some antivirals are useful for more than helping sick people get better – they also can prevent thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of virus cases if used in the early stages of infection.
Cells That Make Our Insides Slick Also Calm Our Spleens
News Jun 03, 2020Researchers have suggested that mesothelial cells around the spleen provide a regular dose of healthy, anti-inflammatory signals to the organ.
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Researchers Develop Rapid Biosensor for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 S1 Antigen
News Jun 02, 2020Researchers at the Agricultural University of Athens have developed an innovative portable biosensor for the rapid, ultra-sensitive and scaled-up detection of the SARS-CoV-2 S1 protein.
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Extracellular Vesicles Play an Important Role in the Pathology of Plasmodium vivax Malaria
News Jun 02, 2020Findings from a new study show that extracellular vesicles promote malaria parasite adhesion to spleen cells.
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