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Every day while you eat, sleep, work, and play, battles are being fought throughout your body. You rarely feel it. But bacteria, viruses, and other microbes are constantly invading from the outside world. Your body has a defense system against such invaders. It’s called the immune system. Your immune system is made up of trillions …
Besides the skin, the digestive tract is the tissue that is most exposed to environmental influences such as bacteria and viruses. Therefore, cells that form these barriers to the interior of the body also have special defence mechanisms. A research team led by Professor Dr. Thorsten Hoppe has now shown that RNA interference, or RNAi …
Chongqing Medical University China has found that nearly everyone who recovers from COVID-19 will develop antibodies to it; 95% of the patients were found to have had the immune cells within three weeks. According to the recent research nearly everyone who becomes infected with this virus and goes on to recover will develop antibodies to …
Vanderbilt University bioengineers have made a breakthrough in penetrating cells inside tumors and activating a switch that tells them to start fighting, as published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. Scientist recently won a Nobel Prize for work unleashing the ability for the immune system to eliminate tumor cells making great strides in immunotherapy’s fight against …