Analyzing patterns of gene expression in
individual human immune system cells, the researchers refined the definitions of the types known as dendritic cells and monocytes and identified a novel type that had been overlooked.
Not exact matches
Caused by a virus called HIV it has the capacity to attack and destroy the
human immune system, leaving the
individual vulnerable to the infections that eventually cause death.
This study that has been ongoing since 2013, Study of the Impact of Long - Term Space Travel on the Astronauts» Microbiome, Microbiome for short, investigates how space travel affects the
human immune system and an
individual's microbiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the
human body at any given time.
When they sequenced the complete genomes of the Y. pestis DNA in those seven
individuals, the team found that the bacterial genomes from the earliest samples lacked two genes that helped Y. pestis evade the
immune systems of
humans and fleas during the Black Death.
In a new study published in Science Advances, a group of University of Wisconsin - Madison researchers show that
individual cells in the
human body have an armament designed to prevent HCMV from achieving and maintaining this latency, to shine a spotlight on the virus so the
immune system knows to fight.
But
human leukocyte antigens — a group of genes that encode proteins essential to the
human immune system — in the samples showed that a few
individuals had a type, or allele, found among only Native Americans.
Infections with
human pathogenic fungi have been continuously increasing during the last years and these fungal pathogens have become a major threat for
individuals, in particular for patients with a compromised
immune system.
It is possible that fleas transmit diseases to
humans that are troublesome for
individuals whose
immune system is not working properly.
Whenever any animal is carrying disease, use common sense and caution in interaction with
humans with lowered
immune systems, such as very young, geriatric, or immunocompromised
individuals.