The immune system can be "reprogrammed" to repair the body faster using electrical stimulation to jump-start healing, says a ...

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A new method to keep human lymph node tissue alive and functioning outside the body for several days could give researchers a ...

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that electrically stimulating “macrophages” – one of the immune ...

First study of humans with a rare immunodeficiency reveals how the immune system protects the body against pathogens known to cause serious diseases, such as tuberculosis and COVID-19. The research ...

Biological systems can behave as siblings in several ways, including by borrowing something and never giving it back. That appears to be what the human immune system did with a protein that now helps ...

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New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on ...

Space travel has always tested the human body by the effects of the new conditions of altered gravity on biological systems. It has long been known that continuous exposure to microgravity conditions ...

But now, a major step forward has been taken. Scientists at the University of São Paulo’s Medical School, at the Institute of ...

The immune system can be “reprogrammed” to heal the body faster using electrical stimulation, according to new research.

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that electrically stimulating macrophages—one of the immune systems key players—can reprogram them in such a way as to reduce inflammation and ...