An international research team led by Université de Montréal medical professor Christopher Rudd, director of research in immunology and cell therapy at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, has identified a key new mechanism that regulates the ability of T-cells of the immune system to react against foreign antigens and cancer. T-cells orchestrate the response of the...
Tag: <span>infections</span>
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She’s got a radical approach for the age of superbugs: Don’t fight infections. Learn to live with them
Janelle Ayres argues for a radically new approach to treating infection: Don’t fight it. Help the body tolerate it. LA JOLLA, Calif. — As her father lay dying of sepsis, Janelle Ayres spent nine agonizing days at his bedside. When he didn’t beat the virulent bloodstream infection, she grieved. And then she got frustrated. She...
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Smart plaster that tells doctors how you feel: Tiny sensors within bandages will detect infections and blood clotting before reporting back to medics
Smart bandages can now detect how well a wound is healing and let you know Sensors are fitted into dressings that can spot infections, pick up blood clotting The plaster could also connect to a smartphone to track other health concerns Smart bandages that can detect how well a wound is healing and send messages...
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One-two punch may floor worst infections
The figure shows an atomic force microscopy image of an E. coli bacterium treated with pentamidine. The magnifying glass highlights the high resolution topographical analysis and perturbations to the cell surface that are caused by pentamidine. McMaster University researchers have found a new way to treat the world’s worst infectious diseases, the superbugs that are...
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Autoimmunity and infections: When the body fights itself
Basel-based doctors are on the trail of a possible connection between autoimmune diseases and infections: errors can occur when immune cells absorb certain proteins from pathogen cells. These findings were reported in the journal PNAS by researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, as well as colleagues in the...