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This virus actually may boost -- not weaken -- our immune system

Lifelong cytomegalovirus infection may be beneficial, boosting the immune system in old age, when we need it most, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Our immune system is at its peak when we’re young, but after a certain age, it declines and it becomes more difficult for our bodies to fight off new infections.

“That’s why older people are more susceptible to infections than younger people,” explains Janko Nikolich-Zugich, MD, PhD, co-director or the University of Arizona Center on Aging and chairman of the Department of Immunobiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson.

In search of a way to rejuvenate the immune system of older adults, Dr. Nikolich-Zugich and Megan Smithey, PhD, have found that one particular virus may not weaken, but actually enhance our immune system. Their findings are published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Yes they are :/ it’s sad and the world is gross. Spend some time talking to vets and they’ll tell you the same.

Hey, this is literally the closest the government can get to interrogation and they’re just getting away with it, what the fuck hell world

will you allow me to share some knowledge with you all even if it makes me sound like a dumb ass stoner

Stem cells restore function in primate heart-failure study

Murry said the goal of his group's research is to develop a treatment that could be given to people shortly after a heart attack to prevent heart failure. Because heart cells are long-lived there should be no need for additional treatments, he said.

Researchers at UW Medicine in Seattle have successfully used human stem cells to restore heart function in monkeys with heart failure. The findings suggest that the technique will be effective in patients with heart failure, the leading cause of death in the world.

“The cells form new muscle that integrates into heart so that it pumps vigorously again,” said Dr. Charles “Chuck” Murry, professor of pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is also a professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology, and of bioengineering. He is the director of the UW Medicine Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine and was the senior leader of this research project.

“In some animals” Murry said, the cells returned the hearts’ functioning to better than 90 percent of normal.“ Murry and his colleagues report their findings in the July 2 issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology. The paper’s lead authors are Drs. Yen-Wen Liu, Billy Chen and Xiulan Yang.

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OFF WITH HER HEAD

@ Marvel

LET KAREN LIVE YOU FUCKING COWARDS

John William Godward (1861-1922)

The Mirror, 1899 l A Priestess, 1894 l A Priestess II, 1893

To all my microbiology studiers out there. I found this video when I was studying for the virology block of my micro class, and this + sketchy micro was an absolute GODSEND. If you’re struggling with remembering the structures and families of the viruses or prefer flow charts over big tables, CHECK THIS DUDE OUT. I could listen to him talk viruses to me all day. 

Here’s a look at how I implemented it into my First Aid (pages 148, 150).

Hope someone finds this helpful!

So do you believe the tax plan Trump passed was a good one ????

Donald Trump won the presidency because of the identity politics of whiteness.

Donald Trump won because of the idiot politics of the left, it had nothing to do with whiteness. The Republicans could’ve put up a festering boil farm on Rosue Odonnels ass and I’d have voted for that festering boil over Killary or Barney.

Shit, a festering boil farm would’ve had a better tax and budget plan than either Killary or Barney.

me when i find out a game has object physics

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