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Immune system

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17.08.2023

A newly discovered immune strategy protects bacteria and more advanced species, from corals to bees

Bacteriophages attacking a bacterium. Source: Prof. Graham Beards
25.10.2022

Weizmann Institute scientists reveal how viruses outwit cellular immune systems

infected bacteria
26.09.2019

A newly-discovered immune system in bacteria is the distance ancestor of one in our own cells

Senescent cells
31.12.2018

Helping the immune system clear away old cells in aging mice helped restore youthful characteristics

Immunofluorescence microscope image of the choroid plexus. Epithelial cells are in green and chemokine proteins (CXCL10) are in red
29.09.2014

Weizmann Institute researchers suggest that the brain's “immunological age” is what counts...

Tunneling electron microscope image captures two goblet cells secreting their contents into the intestine
12.03.2014

Substances secreted by unique cells in the gut lining keep bacteria in their place

Live two-photon microscopy of the small intestine
07.05.2013

How does the immune system in the gut distinguish between helpful microbes and those that wish us harm?

 

 

Immunostaining of brain section in which the epithelial choroid plexus expresses TGF-β (green), hanging in the brain ventricle, the keyhole-like structure delineated by the ependymal lining (red). In the box, monocytes (green) entering via the choroidal vasculature. The composition reflects the immune-educative nature of the choroid plexus as a gatekeeper of the route to the injured parenchyma
08.04.2013

Shifts in our immune system as we age might explain how older brains get “rusty”

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