Prior exposure to common cold coronaviruses enhances immune response to SARS-CoV-2
Researchers from Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG) have shown that certain immune cells, which are found in people previously exposed to common cold coronaviruses, enhance the body’s immune response to SARS-CoV-2, both during natural infection and following vaccination. The […]
Dieting and its effect on the gut microbiome: Bacterium associated with antibiotic-induced colitis plays a role in weight control
Researchers from Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the University of California in San Francisco were able to show for the first time that a very low calorie diet significantly alters the composition of the microbiota present in the human gut. In a current Nature publication, the researchers report that dieting results in an increase of […]