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How to rejuvenate ageing immune cells

Researchers from UCL have demonstrated how an interplay between nutrition, metabolism and immunity is involved in the process of ageing.

The two new studies, supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), could help to enhance our immunity to disease through dietary intervention and help make existing immune system therapies more effective. As we age our immune systems decline. Older people suffer from increased incidence and severity of both infections and cancer. In addition, vaccination becomes less efficient with age. (more…)

Research Shows Why One Bacterial Infection is So Deadly in Cystic Fibrosis

By Guest PostApril 28, 2012Scienceacute infection, amal amer, antibiotics, anwari akhter, arwa abu khweek, autophagy, bacterial infection, bacterium, basant abdulrahman, benjamin kopp, burkholderia cenocepacia, cf, chronic destruction, cystic fibrosis, genetic mutation, kyle caution, lung infection, lung tissue, macrophage, mia tazi, mice and humans, molecule, ohio state university, p62, rapamycin

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have found why a certain type of bacteria, harmless in healthy people, is so deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis.

The bacterium, Burkholderia cenocepacia, causes a severe and persistent lung infection in patients with CF and is resistant to nearly all known antibiotics. Cystic fibrosis is a chronic disorder characterized by a buildup of mucus in the lungs and other parts of the body, and various types of lung infection are responsible for about 85 percent of deaths in these patients. (more…)

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How to rejuvenate ageing immune cells

Research Shows Why One Bacterial Infection is So Deadly in Cystic Fibrosis