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(Brown University) Researchers from Brown University and McGill University have discovered that the natural killer, or NK cells, help prevent T cells from over-responding when a virus hits.

This balance helps prevent T cells, which ordinarily serve the immune system, from causing harm. Details are in the September issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

(Brown University) Researchers at Brown University have discovered that certain types of carbon nanoparticles can be environmentally toxic to adult fruit flies, although they were found to be benign when added to food for larvae.

The findings, published online in Environmental Science & Technology, may further reveal the environmental and health dangers of carbon nanoparticles.

(Brown University) Infected implants now have a foe. Brown University researchers have created a nanoparticle that can penetrate a bacterial-produced film on prosthetics and kill the bacteria.

The finding, published in the International Journal of Nanomedicine, is the first time that iron-oxide nanoparticles have been shown to eliminate a bacterial infection on an implanted prosthetic device.