Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins: News and Research on Selenoproteins

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New vulnerability of asthma immune cells discovered

Why do certain immune cells remain permanently active in allergic asthma—even in an environment that should actually damage them? A team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn has discovered that ...

Single enzyme failure found to drive neuron loss in dementia

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the LMU University Hospital Munich uncovered a mechanism that protects nerve cells from premature cell death, known as ferroptosis. The study provides ...

Discovering new ways to recharge T-cells fighting cancer

A pair of recent studies from the laboratory of Bin Zhang, MD, Ph.D., the Johanna Dobe Professor of Cancer Immunology, have uncovered new details about critical biological processes that may help improve cancer treatments.

How melanoma cells escape oxidative stress to metastasize

Investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered a defense mechanism that protects skin cancer cells from oxidative stress and helps them spread. The findings suggest a new drug target that could lead to therapies ...

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