by John McMillan | Oct 17, 2025 | Immune Response, Medical Research
Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina A special group of immune cells known as regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, became an overnight sensation when a trio of U.S. and Japanese scientists won the Nobel...
by John McMillan | Oct 17, 2025 | COVID-19, Immune Response
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan When Korean researchers published their analysis of 4.2 million people earlier this year, a peculiar finding emerged from the data. Among vaccinated individuals, cases of alopecia (sudden, patchy hair loss) had increased nearly...
by John McMillan | Oct 10, 2025 | Immune Response
Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University The 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine celebrates a discovery that answers one of medicine’s most profound questions: how does the immune system know when to attack, and when to stand down? Most of the time, our...
by John McMillan | Sep 26, 2025 | Immune Response, Medical Research
Joni Wildman, University of Bath; Daniel Henk, University of Bath, and Ed Feil, University of Bath A new European health survey shows that Candidozyma auris – a dangerous drug-resistant fungus – is spreading rapidly in hospitals across the continent. Cases and...
by John McMillan | Jul 4, 2025 | COVID-19, Immune Response
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan History has a cruel way of repeating itself, especially when we fail to appreciate its lessons. COVID-19 is now a global presence, and its emergence has chilling parallels with the deadliest pandemic in recorded human history — one...
by admin | May 9, 2025 | Health, Immune Response
Christine Cairns Fortuin, Mississippi State University Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a way. One of those ways creates quite a bit of suffering for humans: pollen, the infamous...
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