Researchers have uncovered a surprising connection between pain and viral infections that doesn’t involve inflammation. A recent study shows that a specific immune sensor called STING can trigger pain by activating certain neurons in the body, all without causing inflammation. This discovery could lead to new treatments for viral-related pain, like the pain caused by… Read More »
A group of researchers has brought the idea of food as a medicine one step closer. They have identified certain common foodstuffs that alter our microbiome. In science today, food and gut bacteria are two topics that are guaranteed to fuel interest and debate. Both, of course, are interrelated, and a new study focuses on… Read More »
Bacteria have a better popular reputation than viruses these days. It’s not science, but it is culture. You can see it in all the feel-good marketing for gut bacteria and yogurt as medicine for the human microbiome, and in lifestyle stories about better living through kimchi and fermented pickles. Even at the extreme of fecal… Read More »
It may lead to scarring, and most of them can only be seen by electron microscopy. For the main encyclopedia article, is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. 000 of those being registered in the age group why chlamydia was once mistaken for viruses, but many viruses have RNA as their… Read More »