MeSH tree: D12.776.660
Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During their preparation for this battle, B cells transiently revert to a more flexible (plastic) stem-cell-like ...
Dec 29, 2025
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A new analysis of research into the most common type of breast cancer has zeroed in on an overlooked hormone that may be responsible for the increased risk of breast cancer death in postmenopausal women with obesity. It also ...
Dec 2, 2025
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Pulmonary fibrosis—also known in technical terms as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)—is a rare but life-threatening disease. It causes scarring of the connective tissue between the functional tissue of the lungs, leading ...
Nov 18, 2025
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Researchers at the Kennedy Institute have provided the most comprehensive overview to date of how the distinctive segmented nucleus of neutrophils influences their function in health and disease.
Nov 14, 2025
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Targeting a specialized group of histones is safe and opens new therapeutic opportunities for treating blood cancers. This is the main finding of the latest research by Dr. Marcus Buschbeck and Dr. René Winkler, researchers ...
Nov 3, 2025
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New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining stability in our chromosomes may be responsible for serious—and sometimes deadly—diseases.
Oct 30, 2025
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Researchers from the Alzheimer's Center at Temple (ACT) provide new insights into how microglia, the brain's immune cells, exhibit an apparent dual function with the ability to both increase and decrease inflammation in the ...
Oct 27, 2025
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Three copies of chromosome 21 cause Down syndrome (DS), and roughly half of children born each year in the United States with DS—approximately 2,600—also have congenital heart defects (CHDs).
Oct 22, 2025
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Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are insidious. They can evade the immune defense and antiviral drugs by becoming "latent." In this state, they are largely invisible and unassailable. As long as these dormant viruses ...
Oct 9, 2025
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Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Men are around four times more likely to develop it than women, and smoking is the main known environmental risk factor. However, the biological mechanisms behind ...
Oct 8, 2025
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