In a post hoc analysis of the Phase II NOBILITY trial, researchers found that treatment with obinutuzumab—an antibody that targets a protein expressed on certain immune cells—was superior to placebo for preserving kidney ...
Nov 10, 2023
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The brain contains billions of nerve cells controlling our thoughts, behavior and movements. But in fact, up to 20% of the brain is a mystery to scientists. This is the so-called extracellular space, that is, the environment ...
Nov 9, 2023
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Many tiny organisms including bacteria, fungi and viruses normally live on our bodies, and even inside us. These are called the microbiome. The large number of these organisms living in the gastrointestinal tract are collectively ...
Oct 28, 2023
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The journal Science has published a series of review articles regarding the outsized role that the hypothalamus plays in human behavior—regulating hunger pangs, sleep cycles and social interactions, the almond-sized brain ...
The discovery of a physical interaction between two proteins in brain cells that can be traced in mice to control of movement, anxiety and memory could one day open the door to development of new schizophrenia treatment strategies, ...
Oct 26, 2023
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A researcher team from Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne led by Dr. Vivek Thacker now group leader at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Heidelberg University Hospital have studied why tuberculosis bacteria form ...
Oct 23, 2023
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Millions of couples worldwide experience infertility with half of the cases originating in men. For 10% of infertile males, little or no sperm are produced. Now, new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, ...
Oct 20, 2023
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The human brain is made up of two kinds of matter: the nerve cell bodies (gray matter), which process sensation, control voluntary movement, and enable speech, learning and cognition, and the axons (white matter), which connect ...
Oct 20, 2023
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Researchers have revealed a new mechanism of targeted drug treatment used against chronic lymphocytic leukemia, through the promotion of immune cell function, that could be exploited using new anti-cancer immunotherapies.
Oct 19, 2023
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Researchers at Kyushu University have discovered that turning brain immune cells into neurons successfully restores brain function after stroke-like injury in mice. These findings, published in PNAS, suggest that replenishing ...
Oct 18, 2023
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