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Specific Bacterial Strains are Linked to Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Rapid advances in computational and genetic tools have allowed researchers to delve into the mystery that is the human gut microbiome. There are trillions of microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract that are intimately connected to various aspects of our ...

Chickenpox Virus Gets an Unusual Boost From the Immune System

Many of us experienced chickenpox as kids. The illness, which typically causes fever, headache, appetite loss, and an itchy, bumpy, red rash, is caused by Varicella zoster virus (VZV). Even though we usually get over that rash within about ten days without medical intervention, the virus is not completely ...

AI Model Estimates Lung Function from Chest X-Rays

How can artificial intelligence (AI) contribute to the healthcare industry? This is what a recent study published in The Lancet Digital Health hopes to address as a team of researchers from Japan investigated how AI could be used to analyze radiographs, commonly known as x-rays, for determining if a ...

Improving the Diagnosis of a Tick-Borne Illness

Ticks carry the bacterium, Borrelia burgdoferi, which causes Lyme disease. Lyme is becoming more common, in part because of climate change. Tick season is getting longer, and people spend more time outside in warmer months. In around 15 percent of people with Lyme disease, a condition affecting the nervous system ...

A New Understanding of How Pathogens Attack Human Cells

When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now identified the human molecules that are targets of pathogens that are transmitted by ticks, mosquitoes, and other disease ...

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