Nature

Neuroscience

Investigators identify a group of cells involved in working memory

Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered how brain cells responsible for working memory—the type required to remember a phone number long enough to dial it—coordinate intentional focus and short-term storage of information. ...

Oncology & Cancer

Researchers identify protein that controls CAR T cell longevity

CAR T cell therapy has revolutionized the way certain types of cancer are treated, and the longer those CAR T cells live in a patient's body, the more effectively they respond to cancer. Now, in a new study, researchers at ...

Immunology

The 'switch' that keeps the immune system from attacking the body

A microscopic battle rages in our bodies, as our cells constantly fend off invaders through our immune system: a complex system of cells and proteins designed to protect us from harmful pathogens. One of its central components ...

Oncology & Cancer

Secret vulnerabilities of cancer's 'Death Star' protein revealed

Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK, have comprehensively identified the allosteric control sites found in the protein KRAS. These are ...

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