Tag: immune response
Several Down syndrome features may be linked to a hyperactive antiviral...
Joaquin Espinosa, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
People with Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, a genetic condition caused...
What is inflammation? Two immunologists explain how the body responds to...
Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina
When your body fights off an...
3 medical innovations fueled by COVID-19 that will outlast the pandemic
Deborah Fuller, University of Washington; Albert H. Titus, University at Buffalo, and Nevan Krogan, University of California, San Francisco
Why do older people heal more slowly?
Matthew Steinhauser, University of Pittsburgh
I recently visited an 83-year-old patient in the hospital after EMTs rushed her to the ER with an infected leg...
Am I immune to COVID-19 if I have antibodies?
William Petri, University of Virginia
Perhaps the most important question now about COVID-19 is the degree to which a prior infection protects from a second...
What needs to go right to get a coronavirus vaccine in...
Marcos E. García-Ojeda, University of California, Merced
I, like many Americans, miss the pre-pandemic world of hugging family and friends, going to work and having...
Untangling tattoos’ influence on immune response
Christopher D. Lynn, University of Alabama
I lay on the mat of the open-air bungalow in Apia, Samoa, looking up at a gecko. As its...
What’s the scoop on kids and dirt? Get enough to help,...
Cosby Stone, Vanderbilt University
Whenever I am asked what I do for a living, the phrase “I’m an allergist” is almost immediately followed by “So,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
