Can floss STRING along a healthier future? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Needles are scary, but germs are scarier. What if staying healthy meant only a little dental TLC? Enter Rohan Ingrole and team at Texas Tech University. Instead of needles, they used floss
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Can we outwit cancer’s dirtiest tricks? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Pancreatic and colorectal cancers are among the deadliest. And mutations – like one named KRAS – put their growth into overdrive. What do we do? Zev Wainberg and team at UCLA tested a
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Is the cure for cancer… a jog? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Run for your health, they say. But can you outrun… a tumor? Enter Catherine Phelps from the University of Pittsburgh. Her team studied melanoma-prone mice. Some exercised, others stayed sedentary. Surprisingly, tumor
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Declutter … your brain?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our brains have tiny blood vessels that help drain out cellular waste. So do clogged brain vessels mean weaker learning and memory? Kyungdeok Kim and team at Washington University went down the brain drain. After blocking
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What if YOU’RE the problem? Dun dun dun! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Normally, our immune system fights infections – and we love that – BUT one of its molecules actually makes Alzheimer’s worse. What to do? Enter Shirin Schneeberger and team. They looked
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Don’t let the chubby cheeks fool you! Babies are stronger than you think! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. CD8 T-cells are the soldiers of your immune system, trained to attack enemy microbes and infected cells! But, how are these T cells different when you’re
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Supermom, activate: baby force field! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your body’s immune system has its own peacekeepers called regulatory T-cells. They help balance your body’s reactions to invading microbes! But can a pregnant mother’s immune system distinguish HER BABY from a germy invader?
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Diets? Spill the IMMUNI-tea! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Many diets are used as treatments, therapies, magical wishes – there’re so many trends! But how does the immune system respond? Verena Link and team at N-I-H Bethesda researched how vegan and ketogenic diets affect
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s SUPER cell! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Defense wins games…and life! The tortoise has a shell. The octopus changes color. And our bodies have the mighty immune system. But…How does it know how to target cancerous
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Say it together: “One shot to rule them all!” This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. I got my flu shot LAST year — why do I need another one?? Because the flu virus resembles a spiky seed pod! Your immune system recognizes those spikes to
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