Friday, July 19, 2024

A New Way to Measure and Predict Immune Health

Researchers hope the tool will help detect health problems before symptoms appear.
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Friday, July 19, 2024

A New Way to Measure and Predict Immune Health

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Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a natural killer cell from a human donor. The research included data on the numbers of this and other immune cell types per milliliter of peripheral blood. Credit: NIAID

The immune system senses and responds to changes in physiologic health, and a new tool called the immune health metric (IHM) can measure and even predict some of these changes, an NIAID study has found. If doctors could use the IHM to detect health problems long before symptoms appear, they could potentially act early to prevent disease, the researchers suggest. Their findings are published in the journal Nature Medicine.

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