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Research teams discover cellular system for detecting and responding to poisons and pathogens

Click Here to Read More … Two MGH-based research teams, along with a group from the University of California at San Diego, have discovered that animals have a previously unknown system for detecting and responding to pathogens and toxins.
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FDA Approves LINX Reflux Management System to Treat Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

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Viral recombination another way HIV fools the immune system

Click Here to Read More … When individuals infected with HIV become infected with a second strain of the virus, the two viral strains can exchange genetic information, creating a third, recombinant strain of the virus. Now a study from the Partners AIDS Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital shows that how and where viral strains swap DNA may be determined by the immune response against the original infecting strain.
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Traumatic injury sets off a "genomic storm" in immune system pathways

Click Here to Read More … Serious traumatic injuries, including major burns, set off a "genomic storm" in human immune cells, altering around 80 percent of the cells’ normal gene expression patterns.
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Mixed Results for Personal Health Record System

Click Here to Read More … An online personal health record system that allowed people with diabetes to check their lab results and get guidance about medication proved to be of only limited use in improving their health outcomes, researchers found.
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The Serotonin System In Women’s Brains Is Damaged More Readily By Alcohol Than That In Men’s Brains

Click Here to Read More … After only four years of problem drinking, a significant decrease in the function of the serotonin system in women’s brains can be seen. This is the system that regulates such functions as impulse control and mood. It takes 12 years before a corresponding decrease is seen in men…
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The Serotonin System In Women’s Brains Is Damaged More Readily By Alcohol Than That In Men’s Brains

Click Here to Read More … After only four years of problem drinking, a significant decrease in the function of the serotonin system in women’s brains can be seen. This is the system that regulates such functions as impulse control and mood. It takes 12 years before a corresponding decrease is seen in men…
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New Study Explores Immune System Stimulation In Battle Against HER-2/neu Positive Breast Cancer

Click Here to Read More … The Mayo Clinic is excited to announce a Phase I study of a new therapeutic vaccine in HER-2/neu positive breast cancer patients in the fourth quarter of 2011. To understand the importance of this development, the HER-2/neu and the significance of HER-2/neu positive breast cancer must be examined…
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New model system may better explain regulation of body weight

Click Here to Read More … A new mathematical model of the physiological regulation of body weight suggests a potential mechanism underlying the difficulty of losing weight, one that includes aspects of two competing hypotheses of weight regulation.
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FDA Clears New System to Perform Simultaneous PET, MRI Scans

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