Our bodies response to invading pathogens through different mechanisms of the immune system. Innate immunity first detects disease and relays a defense signal to activate the second wave of immune defense; adaptive immunity. This second line of protection…
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Antibodies Against Epstein-Barr Virus Increase Risk of Multiple Sclerosis
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is one of the most common human viruses worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), EBV can cause other diseases. Unfortunately, there is no vaccine to prevent EBV infection. Many individuals…
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Frontline report: Ukraine’s Kursk operation forced Russia to sacrifice Pokrovsk and Toretsk push
Today, there are important updates from the Kursk direction.
Here, the Ukrainian forces started to shorten the front line in the salient with a controlled withdrawal while the Russians continued their multi-vector offensive. Russian commanders decided to exploit the opportunity created…
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Putin expresses support for ceasefire but says details must be worked out
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed support for a U.S. ceasefire proposal to halt Russia’s war with Ukraine for 30 days, but he stressed that many details would have to be worked out and that any truce should pave the way to lasting peace.
“We agree with the proposals to halt the…
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Chemotherapy Combined with Immunotherapy as Neoadjuvant Treatment for Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
A recent study published in JAMA Oncology presents promising new data on a treatment regimen beneficial to patients with a subset of head and neck cancer known as oropharyngeal cancer. A rare malignancy that forms in the middle of the throat,…
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Deadly Russian aerial attacks hit Ukraine’s Kherson region
Russian aerial attacks overnight killed at least two people in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, officials said Thursday.
Kherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram his region came under attack by Russian drones and shelling, and that one other person was injured.
In the…
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Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer Vaccines
So the UK government signed two partnerships: one with BioNTech to provide 10,000 patients with access to personalized cancer treatments by 2030, and a 10-year investment with Moderna in an innovation and technology center with capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines. The stars were…
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‘Fear, anxiety’ for Michigan Ukrainian refugees as Trump considers deportation
Experts told Bridge Michigan that the lack of clarity coupled with major cuts to immigration, refugee and humanitarian aid programs is already making it challenging for Ukrainian nationals to advocate for themselves or make alternative…
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Are Ukrainians ready for ceasefire and concessions? Here’s what the polls say
A U.S.-Ukraine accord on a ceasefire proposal has put the notion of a negotiated end to the three-year war on the agenda, and in the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But even before Moscow responds, it’s pretty clear where the…
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high-speed train ‘starline’ travels around europe like a metro
21st europe’s high-speed train ‘starline’ travels like metro
Think tank 21st Europe proposes Starline, a high-speed train that travels and stops across different cities in the continent, like a metro. It’s a way to connect the European…
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