8 hours ago by Paul Gibson

If you arrived here after an internet search for ‘nude mice‘, then you’re either in need of psychiatric care, or else you’d like some more information on a very important laboratory animal. Or both. Either way: welcome! Our recent story, describing the significance of the naked mole rat in cancer re ...

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1 day ago by ezmony

The Top 50 Reasons Why You Should JOIN IMMUNOTEC Today. Almost everyone has a financial dream. Turn yours into reality by becoming an Immunotec Consultant and taking advantage of a unique opportunity to earn the kind of income that you so richly deserve. Promote breakthrough products that help optim ...

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2 days ago by staceass

With the advent of the dreaded(?) H1N1 virus, Vitamin D is popping up in the news again as a hot-topic flu-fighter. Find out what its all about, and how you can get in on the action.

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2 days ago by AJCann

CDC have recently published the following fact sheet on Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), a rare disorder (wrongly) thought to be frequently associated with influenza infection: Guillain-Barré syndrome is rare Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare disorder in which a person’s own immune system damage ...

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3 days ago by metousiosis

A nice animation on how a virus invades your cells. From YouTube: When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR’s Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explain how a flu virus can trick a single cell into making a ...

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3 days ago by Paul Gibson

It has been 40 years since Neil beat Buzz in a best-of-three game of paper/rock/scissors on board Apollo 11, and earned the right to be the first human ever to get moondust on his shoes. 40 years since he uttered the immortal “One small step for man…” line, while – this isn’t widely known – Aldrin s ...

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3 days ago by iayork

A truly amazing paper in today’s Nature 1 shows 2-photon microscopy videos of T cells entering the brain in search of their target antigen. The title of this post is taken from the commentary, 2 also in Nature. Disease-causing T cells first adhere to the inner walls of the pial vessels and then craw ...

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3 days ago by iayork

A truly amazing paper in today’s Nature 1 shows 2-photon microscopy videos of T cells entering the brain in search of their target antigen. The title of this post is taken from the commentary, 2 also in Nature. Disease-causing T cells first adhere to the inner walls of the pial vessels and then craw ...

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4 days ago by Rodney Appleyard

An unassuming building in inner-city Ultimo has become Australia’s mission control for the investigation of inner space with the launch of sophisticated microscopy facilities by the University of Technology, Sydney. Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry and Science Senator Kim Carr tomorrow will ...

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6 days ago by heterogenius

Peace be upon you, yesterday in our weekly Medical Immunology section we were talking about ‘ Immunodiffusion‘ we first talked about what is meant by immunoprecipitation? (the principle behind immunodiffusion techniques) which simply is ‘a technique in which an antigen is precipitated from solution ...

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