Health & Medicine
Stopping influenza evolution before it starts
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 20 Dec 2011
If you get vaccinated against the flu and then become infected with the virus, your body mounts an immune response that prevents you from getting sick, which ironically can provoke the virus to mutate into a slightly different form — one that could be more infectious
Body’s fat switch discovered
12 Dec 2011
Anti-inflammatory chemical could prevent stroke damage
05 Dec 2011
Drugs that block inflammation in the brain could help patients who have a stroke or a brain haemorrhage, Manchester scientists at the British Society for Immunology Congress in Liverpool
Lying and sitting more comfortably
01 Dec 2011
Dream sleep takes sting out of painful memories
By By Yasmin Anwar, University College of Berkeley | 25 Nov 2011
New research indicates that time spent in dream sleep can help us overcome painful ordeals