Simulation Study Suggests Masks Can Become More Effective When Fewer People Wear Them

The Relationship Between Mask Effectiveness and Population Coverage Rates Background and Research Motivation During the COVID-19 pandemic, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing, mask-wearing, and test-trace-isolate strategies were widely applied to control the spread of the virus. Despite a large body of empirical resear...

Seeing an Apocalyptic Post-Antibiotic Future Lowers Antibiotics Expectations and Requests

How to Reduce the Expectations and Demand for Antibiotics in the Face of the Threat of a “Post-Antibiotic Era” Introduction Antibiotic resistance is becoming a global public health threat. Although the evolution of this resistance is a biological process, human behavior, especially unnecessary antibiotic use in agricultural production and human med...

High-Throughput Discovery of MHC Class I- and II-Restricted T Cell Epitopes Using Synthetic Cellular Circuits

High-Throughput Discovery of MHC Class I and II Restricted T Cell Epitopes Using a Novel Synthetic Cellular Circuit Research Background and Issues In recent years, antigen discovery technologies have made remarkable progress, especially in the application of human T-cell receptors (TCRs) in the recognition of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) ...

The Effect of B7H6 Ligand on T Cell Responses

Immunoglobulin Superfamily Ligand B7H6 Enables T Cell Responses under NK Cell Surveillance Background In the field of immunology, understanding the mechanisms regulating T cell immunity is crucial for developing effective therapies for diseases related to T cell dysfunction, such as autoimmune diseases, chronic infections, and cancer. T cells media...

Lymphatic Vessel Transit Seeds Cytotoxic Resident Memory T Cells in Skin Draining Lymph Nodes

Lymphatic Vessel Transit Seeds Cytotoxic Resident Memory T Cells in Skin Draining Lymph Nodes

Background Introduction The immune system plays a crucial role in responding to viral infections, and T cell memory is especially important in secondary immune responses. This paper focuses on how resident memory T cells (LN TRMs) in lymph nodes are formed after skin infections. LN TRMs play a key role in immune memory at specific sites, but their ...

Characterization of early inflammatory responses and cytokine changes during schistosome infection

对于一篇关于血吸虫感染早期反应的深入研究,Houlder等人撰写的论文为科学界提供了重要的见解。他们的研究发表于《科学免疫学》(Sci. Immunol.) 2024年7月5日的第9卷,揭示了血吸虫(Schistosoma mansoni...

Cytokines Drive the Formation of Memory-Like NK Cell Subsets via Epigenetic Rewiring and Transcriptional Regulation

Cytokines Drive the Formation of Memory-Like NK Cell Subsets via Epigenetic Rewiring and Transcriptional Regulation

In the context of today’s rapid advancement in science and technology, immunotherapy with natural killer (NK) cells has attracted widespread attention in the scientific community for their potential advantages in combating tumors and viral infections. Especially, the discovery of memory-like NK cells has brought new hope for NK cells as an anticanc...

An Explainable and Personalized Cognitive Reasoning Model Based on Knowledge Graph: Toward Decision Making for General Practice

An Explainable and Personalized Cognitive Reasoning Model Based on Knowledge Graph: Toward Decision Making for General Practice

An Explainable and Personalized Cognitive Reasoning Model Based on Knowledge Graph: Toward Decision Making for General Practice Background General medicine, as an important part of community and family healthcare, covers different ages, genders, organ systems, and various diseases. Its core concept is human-centered, family-based, emphasizing long-...

Gastrointestinal infections and gastrointestinal haemorrhage are underestimated but serious adverse events in chimeric antigen receptor T-cell recipients: a real-world study

Gastrointestinal Infections and Gastrointestinal Bleeding in CAR-T Cell Recipients are Underrated but Severe Adverse Events: A Real-World Study Introduction In recent years, Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy has shown lasting efficacy in treating patients with hematologic malignancies. However, multi-system toxic reactions associated...

Measuring Human Auditory Evoked Fields with a Flexible Multi-Channel OPM-Based MEG System

Measuring Human Auditory Evoked Fields with a Flexible Multi-Channel OPM-Based MEG System

Measurement of Human Auditory Evoked Fields Using a Flexible Multichannel Optically Pumped Magnetometer MEG System Xin Zhang and others, from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Jihua Laboratory in Foshan, Guangdong Province, and Guoke Medic...