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Systemic sclerosis (SSc) or scleroderma is a rare, chronic, autoimmune disorder that hardens connective tissue and muscle in the body. As a result, this can generate complications associated with skin, blood vessels, and internal organs. The production of excess collagen and fibrosis eventually leads to irreversible tissue and organ damage. Symptoms include Raynaud’s phenomenon (discoloration and numbness of fingers and toes), skin thickening, joint…

The immune system regulates disease response throughout our bodies. Interestingly, two separate responses act as barriers to prevent the spread of infections. When first introduced to a disease, the innate immune system quickly identifies infections as foreign. Many different innate immune cells circulate throughout the body surveying tissues for anything that they do not identify as ‘self’. This regulatory system reacts to disease more generally and…

Alternate day fasting also demonstrates greater benefits compared with both calorie restriction and other intermittent fasting approaches, but the researchers say longer trials are needed to substantiate these findings.

According to the World Health Organization in 2022, approximately 2.5 billion adults,…

In a study of mice, the researchers showed that this approach produced a much wider diversity of antibodies against an HIV antigen, compared to the vaccine given on its own or with just one of the adjuvants. The dual-adjuvant vaccine accumulated in the lymph…