Recently an international team led by Professor Savvas Savvides at the VIB-UGent Inflammatory Research Center revealed the key molecular mechanisms of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases including psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn’s disease. By focusing on the immunomodulatory factor IL-23, they found that its proinflammatory activity is strongly dependent on its receptor IL-23R for its structural activation. The research was published in Immunity recently. Psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease…
Day: January 30, 2018
Is That True, Women Are More Likely to Survive Than Men?
Current research shows that women live longer than men. And a recent study found baby girls are more likely to survive in famine, epidemics and other unfortunate circumstances, why this happened? The research found that advantage of women may have existed very early. Researchers believe that despite the small differences in gender behavior in infancy, the fact that women also have the advantage in infancy suggests that biology, at…