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3-Sep-2025

Antibody-making cells reveal new function in response to flu infection

Researchers from the Penn State College of Medicine uncovered a previously unknown role of the immune cell that are known for making antibodies. In response to flu infection, specialized B cells produce the key signaling messenger that is essential to developing robust, long-lasting immunity.

Journal: PLOS Pathogens

3-Sep-2025

Loneliness is bad for health and wealth in the UK

University of Exeter
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lonely people incur an extra £850 in annual healthcare costs to the NHS, as well as experiencing worse mental and physical health

Journal: PLOS One

3-Sep-2025

High-volume antibody testing platform could accelerate disease research and treatment development

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Antibodies are the critical targeting agents of the immune system and the crux of immune therapy and vaccine development, but studying them is slow, expensive and labor-intensive. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new high-volume method that can rapidly build and test large numbers of antibodies at once. With it, they have already uncovered common aspects of how antibodies bind across variants of a key influenza target protein.

Journal: Science Translational Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

3-Sep-2025

Well-being and ill-being do not lie on a single continuum

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A large-scale cross-sectional study of older individuals in the UK supports contextual, process-based models of mental health that emphasise values-guided behaviour, psychosocial resources and biopsychosocial integration, according to a study published September 3, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS Mental Health by Darren Edwards from Swansea University, UK, and colleagues. This has important implications for clinical and rehabilitation contexts, such that efforts to enhance well-being are complementary and have additional benefits over and above reducing distress.

Journal: PLOS Mental Health

3-Sep-2025

Sip smarter: Apple juice effects on oral health are short-lived, study suggests

University of Portsmouth
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists in England have discovered saliva protects our teeth and mouths better than expected against apple juice, as long as you follow some important hygiene steps.

Journal: PLOS One

3-Sep-2025

Vegan dog food provides similar nutrients to meat-based diets, new study finds

University of Nottingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that vegan diets for dogs sold in the UK provide similar nutrition to meat-based diets.

The study, led by Rebecca Brociek from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, and published in PLOS One, highlights the importance of a balanced and nutritional diet for our canine companions.

Journal: PLOS One

3-Sep-2025

Among women suffering hyperemesis (extreme nausea and vomiting) in pregnancy, half report considering terminating their pregnancy, and 9 in 10 have considered having no more children

PLOS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Among women suffering hyperemesis (extreme nausea and vomiting) in pregnancy, half report considering terminating their pregnancy, and 9 in 10 have considered having no more children, per Australian survey which also found that only half rated popular treatments as effective

Journal: PLOS One