What Does the “Love Hormone” Do? It’s Complicated

What Does the “Love Hormone” Do? It’s Complicated

A study of mice in a semi-natural setting shows how the hormone oxytocin can amplify aggression as well as friendliness 15.06.2020 Competition or cooperation? Oxytocin might enhance social cues for both During the pandemic lockdown, as couples have been forced to...
Paying the Price of Protection

Paying the Price of Protection

A new model of autoimmune disease may solve some great outstanding riddles, including what causes T cells to attack and why only certain organs get them 19.05.2020 Single-organ autoimmune diseases attack particular organs, eg., the thyroid, adrenals and beta cells in...
How to Neutralize the Coronavirus: Learning from the Body

How to Neutralize the Coronavirus: Learning from the Body

Making copies of existing antibodies could be fast track to treatment 12.05.2020 A niche within a lymph node in which antibody-forming cells are generated   Recovered COVID-19 patients continue to produce coronavirus-neutralizing antibodies, keeping them as a...