🤒 Why do we actually get a #fever? One reason is that immune cells move faster at higher temperatures. A team led by Stefan Wieser at the Institute of Zoology has now uncovered the molecular mechanism behind this process, with the motor protein myosin II taking center stage.

🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/heat-acts-as-a-turbo-boost-for-immune-cells/

📖 https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(25)00636-7

#biology #cellularBiology #quantitativeBiology #molecularBiology #cellBiology #cellularBiology #cells #singleCellBiology

Ok existence, all I'm asking for is a few consecutive months where nothing health related goes haywire. That's regular life stuff and I sure do miss its consistency.

The present confluence:
- fever please stay under 101.0F (wishful thinking, it's >101.5 now, nope
- straining lumbar L3-L5 on the right side ("the server isn't THAT heavy"; I was wrong)
- a fortnight of that universal reason for consuming quarts of pure cranberry juice
- taking antibiotics which will destabilize the immune system, ANS, CNS
- pause DAT agonist, bye bye steroidogenesis required for homeostasis, hello 12-20x prolactin (pregnancy level, so fun)

#health #notgreat #wtf #gotenoughproblems #ratherbeskiing #fever