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    Family members who perform the caregiver function usually pay a price because of the stresses involved. If “chronic adversity” is theorized to be the cause of a rise in a person’s IL-6, then questions for research include whether the IL-6 effect also applies to younger spouses and other family members, such as a child caring […]

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  2. Till IL-6 Do Us Part: Elderly caregivers show harmful immune effect

    Elderly people caring for their incapacitated spouses experienced dramatic average increases in the blood concentration of a protein involved in immune regulation, a trend that puts them at risk for a variety of serious illnesses.

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  3. Animals

    Moonlighting: Beetles navigate by lunar polarity

    A south African dung beetle is the first animal found to align its path by detecting the polarization of moonlight.