Much like young children who swiftly acquire languages in their early years, our visual system also has a "critical period" during the first few years of life where rapid development occurs. After this time, changes become ...
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University of Virginia Health researchers probing the causes of coronary artery disease have identified critical biological processes that can go wrong inside the linings of blood vessels and contribute to the dangerous plaque ...
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Superantigens are molecules that can stimulate a strong immune response by activating a large number of cytotoxic T cells, which are white blood cells that can eliminate tumor cells. One example of a superantigen is staphylococcal ...
Aug 14, 2023
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A new editorial paper titled "A novel theory of ageing independent of damage accumulation" has been published in Aging.
Aug 9, 2023
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Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health care system, have designed a probiotic to suppress autoimmunity in the brain, which occurs when the immune system attacks ...
Aug 9, 2023
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A new study from Tulane University has identified a new treatment for a chronic immune system disease that can prevent children from eating.
Jul 31, 2023
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Aerobic glycolysis, the process by which cells transform glucose into lactate, is key for eye development in mammals, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications.
Jul 14, 2023
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A research team led by Prof. Yang Zhenye from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Guo Jing from the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, has made ...
Jul 14, 2023
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The gastric corpus, which is a major component of the glandular stomach, is composed of parietal, chief, pit, and neck cells. Each of these specialized epithelial cells play an important role in digestion, and they are continuously ...
Jun 29, 2023
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An experimental antibody treatment largely prevented a bone marrow transplant complication called graft versus host disease (GVHD) in the intestines, without causing broad immune suppression, in a preclinical study led by ...
Jun 28, 2023
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