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Tackling common vaccine questions

... need to have got rid of those antibodies in order for your own antibodies to be made in the body. But in order to make your own antibodies you also need to have your immune system to be ... rid of the antibodies from the mother and having your own immune system sufficiently active that you can generate ...

A greyscale computer image of a HIV virus particle

What HIV does to us, and how we treat it

... two things from that point. One is it then uses the cells own replication machinery to make copies of itself that then ... we have the memory available. So HIV can use the body's own way of keeping that record alive to keep itself working. ... as a result of the immune response taking out some of your own immune system and there's this sort of tug of war back ...

FRIDGE LARGE

Menu labels impact calorie content

... aren't even aware of the nutritional information of their own food and drink, that given that information they can know ... think how many restaurants don't even know what's in their own food and drink, let alone the consumers. Chris - How were ... those restaurants? Dolly - We didn't look at this in our own study, so the evidence is pretty weak on the impact on ...

A greyscale computer image of a HIV virus particle

Umbilical cord blood stem cells cure HIV case

... the cells from another person are used to replace Adam's own blood cells. But to do that, you've got to remove Adam's own immune system and blood cells using chemotherapy, which ... next step would be to get stem cells from a person, their own stem cells, that we can prove they haven't got HIV in ...

Ampoules and vials of vaccine

How would a COVID-19 vaccine work?

... to be very careful, in the sense that you have to use your own sense and scientific knowledge to create a vaccine which ... in that you inject the DNA or RNA and you allow your own body to make parts of the virus that can protect you and ... and you put that genetic message into the body, and our own cells pick that up and decode it, and then show that to ...

STOCKS

COVID-19 and the economy

... available. So we thought, let's go out and collect our own data. Adam - And what have you found? What is the impact ...

A brain sparking with electricity.

Trying out the 'super memorisers' test

... the project - which involves a series of online tests. Our own Will Tingle took the plunge on behalf of the Naked ...

CGI images of DNA double helix

How is HIV treated

... material, the HIV genetic code in fact becomes part of our own genetic code, in our white blood cells; and that's a ...

A pancreas

Bluetooth pancreas to help people with type 1 diabetes

... and to check glucose levels. This device can do it on its own. Chris - Presumably you've now got data showing that ...

A single cell neuron

New neural implant prevents scar tissue

... it with the same resolution as one could have moved their own fingers and you're putting these devices in into the ...

Hand Washing

App shown to help with OCD symptoms

... it’s really personalised medicine because it’s their own hands that they’re watching wash or touch these ...

this is a picture of a head outline filled with connections like vessels or nerves

Your brain on origami

... with. And it was almost like they were mapping onto their own brain what they were looking at, and pretending they were ...

A person sitting on a laptop working

Is the 4 day working week a success?

... when paid work is a part of their life. I know from my own data that people are unemployed or excluded from the ...

Glasses clinking together for a toast.

Deborah Prentice: faking fun, and free speech

... people to hesitate to express themselves, to censor their own views, to look for cues about what kinds of opinions will ...

Coronavirus particles.

COVID-19 updates: Variants and obesity

... maintain a healthy weight compared with countries like our own. And so we really do need to take a good look at ...