A change in function in a mitochondrial antioxidant protein increases stem cell gene expression that promotes the development of more aggressive cancerous cells, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study published ...
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Researchers in UC Santa Barbara neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik's lab have discovered a novel organelle—a previously unknown cell structure whose function it is to help clean up faulty proteins in times of stress and keep ...
Jun 14, 2022
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When a non-metastatic brain tumor—a meningioma—recurs after surgery and radiation treatment, a patient is out of options. No drugs are approved for these aggressive tumors, which occur in up to 20% of cases and can lead ...
May 9, 2022
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Scientists at UMass Chan Medical School have developed a technology to isolate human skeletal muscle stem cells, or progenitor cells, from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Christened iMyoblasts in an eLife paper by ...
Mar 17, 2022
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Researchers have been using organoids—3D organ-like, tightly-packed cell cultures—as models to study organ development, disease and drug discovery with excellent success. However, most existing imaging methods are limited ...
Mar 14, 2022
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Today, treatment methods are available for cancer that complement each other. Radiation therapy is frequently used, and can be combined with surgery and chemotherapy, for example. Although treatment with ionizing radiation ...
Mar 11, 2022
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It's common to say that someone looks either younger or older than their chronological age, but aging is more than skin deep. Our various organs and systems may have different ages, at least from a biological perspective. ...
Mar 8, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center found that a cytokine, a category of protein that acts as messengers in the body, and a fatty acid can work together to trigger a type of cell death previously ...
Mar 4, 2022
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Macrophages are immune cells crucial for immune response, tissue repair, and the removal of cancer cells. Scientists see macrophages as promising living therapeutics. However, to be effectively used for therapies, macrophages ...
Feb 25, 2022
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RIKEN neuroscientists have discovered a surprising mechanism for how neuronal activity in mice is dynamically tuned—with signaling at some synapses increasing, while other synapses go quiet—so as to promote the process ...
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