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TB bacteria can play dead to outlast the immune response, study reveals

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain…
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#COVIDvaccine technology adapted to develop first #mRNA defense against #antibioticresistant #bacteria
#Vaccine developed by team is an mRNA-based vaccine delivered via lipid nanoparticles, similar to #COVID19vaccine. However, mRNA vaccines are typically effective against #viruses — not bacteria like the plague... In 2023, researchers developed a unique method for producing the bacterial protein within a human cell in a way that prompts #immunesystem to defend against it.
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07

Medical Xpress · COVID-19 vaccine technology adapted to develop first mRNA defense against antibiotic-resistant bacteriaBy Tel-Aviv University

@SteveThompson

Nice skeptic article as any true science should be. Anything that links the 2011 Russo paper "Taming THC: potential cannabis synergy and phytocannabinoid-terpenoid entourage effects" is to be celebrated. Here is the link again in case somebody missed it.

bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.co

Russo's paper has been cited 1,161 times and it deals with exogenous cannabinoids and terpenes synergy, not just endogenous o made inside our body, as did the original 1998 Mechoulam research.

Indeed, due to obsolete prohibitionism and sad profit-comes-first mentality, the current cannabis and hemp markets are a wild west of fake adultered product and unproven claims.

Yet since 2011 hundreds of studies have confirmed the entourage effect. Here is a small and incomplete collection of full spectrum extract papers 2004-2023.

cvresearch.info/full-spectrum-

OPs article calls for more standarized extract testing, even though Big Pharmas really prefers patentable, cheap to make, single molecule, symptom masking drugs. Good luck with that.

I agree with the article bottomline: governments should step up to the research task instead of trusting this critical matter to profit-driven corporations. Mixed isolate cannabis pharmaceuticals have been in the market for over a decade and proven their capabilities and limitations.

That is the case of Sativex, a 700 US$ 1:1 (thc:cbd) oral spray that controls some symptoms of MS yet fails to work for other conditions. Three separate studies ( Israeli, Brazilian and American) have since proven that full flower artisanal extracts are up to 6x more effective than expensive isolate preparations like Sativex
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#Cannabis #cannabismedicinal #thc #thca #cbd #cbda #entourageeffect
#cannabislegal #Cannabisgesetz
#cannabislegalisierung #ganja
#maconha #weed #cannabisculture
#cannabisresearch #chronicillness
#ptsd #arthritis #stress #depression
#multiplesclerosis #ImmuneSystem

Mammalian lifespan linked to brain size and immune system function

Why do cats generally live longer than dogs? New research suggests that longer lifespans of mammals like cats could be linked to their bigger brains and more complex immune systems.

#lifespan #brain #immunesystem #mammals

phys.org/news/2025-05-mammalia

Phys.org · Mammalian lifespan linked to brain size and immune system functionBy University of Bath

Daughter, 15, is writing a biology test at school tomorrow and has just summarised the content for us at the kitchen table. The topics are DNA, cell division, chromosomes, the immune system and immunisation. The teacher (who comes from Iran and is a biologist who has only recently become a teacher in Berlin) did a really good job, and she was able to explain it well. Why can a 15-year-old understand this and many adults nowadays refuse to?