Dementia: Catching the memory thief

21 September 2016

It's over a hundred years since the first case of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease was diagnosed. Since then we鈥檝e learned a great deal about the protein 鈥榯angles鈥 and 鈥榩laques鈥 that cause the disease. How close are we to having effective treatments聽鈥 and could we even prevent dementia from occurring in the first place?

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鈥楥logged-up鈥 immune cells help explain smoking risk for TB

24 March 2016

Smoking increases an individual鈥檚 risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) 鈥 and makes the infection worse 鈥 because it causes vital immune cells to become clogged up, slowing their movement and impeding their ability to fight infection, according to new research published in the journal Cell.

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