Some immune cells make the long journey from the gut to membranes surrounding the brain. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/SPL/Alamy Immune cells that fight stomach bugs can migrate from the gut to the brain, where they establish a lasting ‘memory’ of previous infection, according to a study in mice. The brain is shielded by protective membranes called
In 2004, Amy Proal got an infection that changed her life. “I was in my pre-med, last year of college, and totally tanked,” she says. “No one could tell me what it was, everybody said my blood work was fine — sent to a psychiatrist, the usual story.” She started reading papers from her sickbed
Scientists work in a laboratory at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which could lose research projects to the US Department of Defense.Credit: NIAID Update: After this story was published, the US Department of Defense responded to Nature’s request for comment with a statement confirming that the department has signed a research agreement
It may finally be safe to eat lettuce again after June’s horrifying—and bagged-salad-trust-destroying—cyclospora outbreak. But the summer of ’26’s foodborne illness train rolls on with a new rash of recalls: for salmonella. The FDA has reported multi-state salmonella bacteria outbreaks tied to jalapeños, granola, dog food, alfalfa sprouts (also featuring E. coli), and something most
Health officials in Louisiana are urging beachgoers to take precautions during a summertime surge in infections from a flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters. Louisiana has confirmed nine cases of Vibrio vulnificus infections this year, the state’s health department said last week in a news release. All were hospitalized, and five died. During the same period over the
Study design and participant recruitment IMPACC is a prospective longitudinal study that enrolled >1,000 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, as previously described27,32,55,56,57,58. Participants 18 years and older were recruited from 20 hospitals across 15 academic institutes within the USA (Fig. 1a). All participants were confirmed to be SARS-CoV-2-positive by reverse transcription PCR (RT–PCR) testing and no participants