Over time, HIV can destroy so many CD4 cells that the body can’t fight infections and diseases, eventually leading to the most severe form of an HIV infection: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. A person with AIDS is very vulnerable to cancer and to life-threatening infections, suc...
such as electricity, the germ theory, the improved understanding of the cardiovascular system and circulation, along with anesthetics, the past 150 years has seen a progressive change in the diagnosis and successful treatment of aortic diseases whether infectious, obstructive, hemorrhagic, or aneurysmal...
As human civilizations rose, these pandemic diseases, from the bubonic plague to smallpox to influenza, struck them down.
Different variants of cell culture found application in modeling diseases, IVF technology, stem cell and cancer research, monoclonal antibody production, regenerative medicine and therapeutic protein production. All those different scientific approaches would not be possible without some crucial discoveries ...
Given the profound recent interest in therapeutic manipulation of cytotoxic T cell responses, it is an opportune time to look back on the early history of the field. This Timeline describes how the early findings occurred and eventually led to current therapeutic applications. This is a preview ...
Infectious diseases such as influenza can spread rapidly—sometimes in a matter of days—among humans living in different areas of the world. The spread of a disease isfacilitatedby several factors, including an increased degree of infectiousness of the disease-causing agent, human-to-human transmi...
A Timeline of Historical Pandemics Disease and illnesses have plagued humanity since the earliest days, our mortal flaw. However, it was not until the marked shift to agrarian communities that the scale and spread of these diseases increased dramatically. ...
2D). A similar trend is seen in feeding associations with birds, where strong support for a bird-feeding common ancestor occurs only after the K-Pg in the genera Culex and Culiseta, two genera that feed heavily upon modern birds and contain major zoonotic vectors of diseases such as West ...
Among the diseases of the coffee plant are leaf rust, caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix, which does considerable damage in the plantations of Arabica, and coffee berry disease, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum coffeanum, which also attacks the Arabica. Robusta appears to be resistant, or...
September 1, 1939-Nazis invade Poland (Jewish pop. 3.35 million, the largest in Europe). Beginning of SS activity in Poland. See also:The History Place - World War II in Europe Timeline September 1, 1939-Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m...