Oncology & Cancer

Study explains how 'zombie' cancer cells revive themselves

Mutating cells can prevent the spread of cancer by flipping themselves into a state of reduced activity called senescence. Cancer genes, however, can retaliate by reviving those cells so they can replicate again.

Psychology & Psychiatry

The brain's support cells may play a key role in OCD

A type of cell usually characterized as the brain's support system appears to play an important role in obsessive-compulsive disorder-related behaviors, according to new UCLA Health research published April 12 in Nature.

Neuroscience

New approach to fighting fetal brain dysfunction

A team from the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan has uncovered new information about how microglia, the resident immune cells in the brain, colonize the brain during the embryonic stage of development. ...

Cardiology

Progress with organoids: A mini-heart in a Petri dish

A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has induced stem cells to emulate the development of the human heart. The result is a sort of "mini-heart" known as an organoid. It will permit the study of the earliest ...

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