A vaccine may successfully turn off peanut allergy in mice, a new study shows. Just three monthly doses of a
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More dairy associated with higher bone density and greater spine strength in men over 50
Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife’s Institute for Aging Research (IFAR), Wageningen University, Tilburg University, University of Reading, and Beth Israel Deaconess
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Risk of type 1 diabetes climbs when one population of T cells falls: Study in mice links protective immune cells that form outside the thymus with autoimmune diabetes — and suggests that gut microbes affecting this cell population may protect against disease
In autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, some of the immune system’s T cells mistakenly attack the body’s own
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How did gonorrhea become a drug-resistant superbug? Scientists show how the gonorrhea bacterium resists last-resort antibiotic ceftriaxone while maintaining a robust growth rate
The bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is resistant to multiple standard antibiotics and now threatens to develop
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More dairy associated with higher bone density and greater spine strength in men over 50
Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife’s Institute for Aging Research (IFAR), Wageningen University, Tilburg University, University of Reading, and Beth Israel Deaconess
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How moms’ brains are hard-wired to gather young
A mother’s “basic instinct” to grab her wandering offspring and return them to the nest depends on a specific set
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Links between eating red meat and distal colon cancer in women
A new study suggests that a diet free from red meat significantly reduces the risk of a type of colon
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