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Two Types of Bacteria as Major Causes of Alzheimer’s – Report
And now another disease with a microbial cause. Not MAP this time, but it makes you think!
“We are saying there is incontrovertible evidence that Alzheimer’s Disease has a dormant microbial component, and that this can be woken up by iron dysregulation. Removing this iron will slow down or prevent cognitive degeneration – we can’t keep ignoring all of the evidence,” Professor Douglas Kell said.
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March 2016
Psoriasis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Two Sides of the Same Coin? – Report
It is known that psoriasis is observed at a frequency about eight times higher among patients with CD than in the general population. This preliminary study begins to make sense of the overlap between patients with Crohn’s disease and psoriasis.
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June 2015
Microbial ‘Dark Matter’ – Report
OK, call us geeky, but some of us at Crohn’s Map Vaccine are really into the science of bacteria, even though this has not been our background. We can thank the onset of Crohn’s in ourselves or a loved one for this enforced interest. For those of you who share our passion, here is an article (quite long, so be prepared) by Raffi Khatchadourian on the tantalising subject of microbial dark matter!
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June 2016
The accidental advantages of vaccines – Report
This is an excellent article from New Scientist about the accidental benefits of vaccines and makes a useful contribution to the immune system debate.
“If infections can alter the immunological milieu, it is not a major leap to suggest that vaccines might also do so,” said Andrew Pollard, head of the Oxford Vaccine Centre at the University of Oxford.
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August 2013
Mix of Bacteria Could Prevent or Encourage Cancer – Report
What if the cause of breast cancer also turns out to be mycobacterial for some women?
“[The results] suggest that microbes in the breast, even in low amounts, may be playing a role in breast cancer—increasing the risk in some cases and decreasing the risk in other cases,” says Gregor Reid, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Western University in Ontario and the study’s senior author.
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October 2016
‘Remarkable’ progress in finding HIV cure – Report
“The research by Oxford and Cambridge universities, Imperial College London, University College London, and King’s College London, is testing a “kick and kill” technique to first expose, then destroy the virus.”
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October 2016