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Women Who Wear Too Much Perfume May be Depressed

That’s the conclusion of Dr. Yehuda Shoenfeld, a physician and autoimmune disease researcher at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel, who studies “antibodies, a class of chemicals is launching attacks the body’s cells, often in patients with autoimmune diseases like lupus. “Our scientific findings suggest that women who are depressed are also losing their [...]

Identified Two Antibodies that Stop the Progress of HIV

The finding could point the way to create an AIDS vaccine. Researchers at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, have managed to isolate the two antibodies responsible for disease resistance in an African man. These antibodies prevent many strains of HIV from multiplying in the body and end up producing the disease AIDS. Furthermore, [...]