Immune system

How Immune System Detection Could Benefit Spinal Cord Injuries: Study

The study reveals that the immune system's response to spinal cord injuries further helps in the body's natural immune response to improve patient outcomes.

Jun 03, 2023, 21:51 PM IST

Best Diet For Covid-19: Is Chicken Soup Healthy? Check What Experts Say

Having a healthy diet is associated with a reduced risk of Covid. And, if you do have Covid, a healthy diet is associated with milder symptoms.

Apr 27, 2023, 15:50 PM IST

Cancer cells hide behind sugar particles to dodge the immune system

Cancer cells attack the immune system and thus go unnoticed at times. Disguised cancer cells use sugar molecules on their surface to sneak away from immune system. Find out how this traitor can be caught.

Nov 08, 2022, 11:44 AM IST

Understanding vaccine response can affect antibody responses

A recent finding reveals how varied biological mechanism of people leads to varied vaccine responses. READ MORE TO KNOW.

Nov 07, 2022, 14:38 PM IST

Know how poor muscle health impacts your immunity

Both men and women's physiologies alter after the age of 40. More crucially, between the ages of 40 and 80, the body begins to lose muscle mass more quickly-up to 33 percent more quickly.

Aug 22, 2022, 14:07 PM IST

Covid-19’s Omicron variant: Step up on building immunity with Vitamin C + Zinc & Kadha

Variants are the usual part of a virus’ evolution and till the time the virus has the ability to infect, mutate and transmit, they will persist in spreading.

Jan 12, 2022, 16:56 PM IST

How our immune system may help prevent miscarriage

Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco found that the recently discovered subset of cells known as extrathymic Aire-expressing cells in the immune system may prevent the mother's immune system from attacking the placenta and foetus.

Jul 19, 2021, 14:22 PM IST

Too much salt in your diet can weaken your immune system

For the findings, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the research team fed mice a high-salt diet and found more severe bacterial infections.

Mar 27, 2020, 14:18 PM IST

'Secret handshake' detected between sperm and uterus

Uterine cells express a receptor that recognizes a glycan molecule on the surface of sperm cells.

Jul 22, 2019, 16:20 PM IST

High-fibre diet cuts preeclampsia risk during pregnancy

Simple recommendation to 'eat real food', mostly plants and not too much' might be the most effective primary prevention strategy for some of the most serious conditions of our time.

Jul 11, 2019, 15:50 PM IST

Drug found to delay Type-1 diabetes by 2 years

Researchers enrolled 76 participants aged 8-49 years who were relatives of people with Type-1 diabetes, had at least two types of diabetes-related autoantibodies (proteins made by the immune system), and abnormal glucose (sugar) tolerance.
 

Jun 11, 2019, 11:37 AM IST

Protein that may improve survival during flu identified

The researchers studied the survival and lung function of mice with influenza in the lab. 

Feb 08, 2018, 18:39 PM IST

Scientists make fundamental discovery on how to tackle allergies

Scientists made the discovery by studying how the immune system in mice fights off parasitic worms.

Nov 17, 2017, 18:14 PM IST

Toxic nanoparticles in tattoo inks may harm your immune system

Toxic impurities that make up the ink in tattoos can travel inside the body in the form of nanoparticles and affect the lymph nodes.

Sep 13, 2017, 18:30 PM IST

Faulty immune system causes depression: Study

However, researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK have found that an overactive immune system triggers inflammation throughout the entire body, sparking feelings of hopelessness, unhappiness and fatigue.

Sep 11, 2017, 15:56 PM IST

Sepsis: Inexpensive prevention technique discovered by US-based Odisha scientist

The growth of the sepsis germs is so fast, that by the time the baby is brought to the hospital, he or she dies.

Aug 18, 2017, 12:24 PM IST

Light can trick immune system to attack cancer

The team evaluated their methods in mice with melanoma on the ears.

May 16, 2017, 00:35 AM IST

Lupus – Symptoms, causes, reasons why it should be listed with non-communicable diseases

Lupus is not contagious, which means you can't catch the disease from someone or spread to others.

May 10, 2017, 14:27 PM IST

The human immune system now has new types of blood cells!

By using a technique called single-cell genomics, the researchers were able to analyse gene expression patterns in individual human blood cells.

Apr 23, 2017, 16:46 PM IST