For their own self-preservation, infected bacteria often try their best to stay out of the immune system in our bodies – and scientists have found a surprising and previously undiscovered way to do this. What happens is that the bacteria release toxins to disarm the mitochondria in immune cells, those …
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Powerhouse Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell – but if something dampens their output, it can be difficult to determine why. To better investigate mitochondrial function, a team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland developed a method to glow mice in the dark, like …
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Photo: ROBYN BECK / AFP (fake pictures) Scientists in the UK believe they may have found a cheap, low-tech way to help combat age-related vision loss. In a small clinical trial, people over 40 who were told to look at a deep red light for three minutes a day had …
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