Taiwanese Professor Develops Novel Immune-inhibition Technology to Speed Up Growth in Animals And Reduce Farmers’ Costs

A Taiwanese professor has developed a novel immune-inhibition technology that can shorten animals’ growth period and reduce farmers’ cost – an innovation that may provide a solution to the world’s food shortage problem.

Limpopo Health And Social Development MEC Dikeledi Magadzi Expected to Lead Campaign to Promote Breastfeeding

Limpopo Health and Social Development MEC Dikeledi Magadzi is expected to lead a campaign to promote breastfeeding as part of World Breastfeeding Week. How People Arrived Here: Limpopo Health and Social Development

Specialized Regulatory T Cell Stifles Antibody Production Centers

A regulatory T cell that expresses three specific genes shuts down the mass production of antibodies launched by the immune system to attack invaders, a team led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported online in the...

Study Reveals How Plants And Bacteria ‘Talk’ to Thwart Disease

When it comes to plants’ innate immunity, like many of the dances of life, it takes two to tango. A receptor molecule in the plant pairs up with a specific molecule on the invading bacteria and, presto, the immune system swings into action to defend...

Study Shows Earlier Flu Viruses Provided Some Immunity to Current H1N1 Influenza

University of California, Davis, researchers studying the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, formerly referred to as “swine flu,” have identified a group of immunologically important sites on the virus that are also present in seasonal flu viruses that have...