News

A potential new Alzheimer’s drug represses the harmful inflammatory response of the brain’s immune cells, reducing disease pathology, preserving neurons and improving cognition in preclinical tests.

Fungi i.e. moulds and yeasts in the indoor environment are not associated with an increased risk of asthma among children. This finding was made in a study which analysed the microbiota of approximately 380 Finnish homes.

White-tailed deer across Ohio have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, and the results also show that viral variants evolve about three times faster in deer than in humans.

Researchers have discovered that oil-degrading bacteria, widely found in the ocean, grow around oil droplets forming dense communities at the oil-water interface.

A new study has examined how T cells of the immune system are affected by weightlessness. The results could explain why astronauts’ T cells become less active and less effective at fighting infection.

A study suggests that some changes the body undergoes during a trip to space can also happen after a few weeks of weightlessness on Earth.

Researchers have engineered a novel 3D human cellular model that mimics the intricate interactions between brain cells and these immune invaders.

Scientists hope that identifying an essential but formerly unknown stage in the fungal takeover of rice cells can accelerate the treatment or prevention of rice blast disease, which ruins up to 30% of global yields each year.

The FDA has approved the first vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), designed for use during pregnancy to protect infants from severe RSV-associated respiratory disease in their first six months of life.

The conspicuous symptoms of Parkinson’s disease all stem from the loss of neurons in a region of the brain that helps control movement. But many researchers believe that the neurodegenerative disorder may get started far away from the brain.