The immune system is a major determinant of how patients respond to standard treatments for ovarian cancer, the leading cause of death from gynecological malignancies. But little was known about how the immune landscape of ...
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Lung macrophages play a pivotal role in diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Two types of macrophages—the white blood cells that defend the body by killing microbes, removing dead cells and stimulating immune responses—are ...
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Scientists have revealed how certain immune cells may be quietly helping prostate cancer grow—and how blocking them could help the body fight back.
Jul 2, 2025
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Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of its complex outer envelope, ...
Apr 21, 2025
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For more than three decades, scientists have been racing to stop Alzheimer's disease by removing amyloid beta plaques—sticky clumps of toxic protein that accumulate in the brain.
Mar 6, 2025
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A research team at the Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) has developed a new protein capable of improving memory and reducing tau protein levels in animal models of Alzheimer's disease. ...
Feb 11, 2025
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Our livers contain many different types of immune cells. New research by the team of Prof. Charlotte Scott (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) and colleagues now reveals that a specific activation state of one of ...
Jan 24, 2025
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Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have found that two genetic variants that confer high risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) together trigger a harmful inflammatory response in the brain's immune cells, particularly in females, ...
Sep 30, 2024
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Formerly known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is an inflammatory disease characterized by liver scarring or fibrosis that progressively impairs liver function.
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A new study from deCODE genetics and collaborators is the first to uncover a strong recessive component in Alzheimer's disease.
Jun 21, 2024
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