A "decoy" mechanism has been found in human and animal cells to protect them from potentially dangerous toxins released by foreign invaders, such as bacteria.
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The waste-management system of the cell appears to play an important role in the spread of Alzheimer's disease in the brain. A new study has focused on small, membrane-covered droplets known as exosomes. It was long believed ...
Jun 14, 2018
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University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have found a novel, previously unreported pathogenic entity that is a fundamental link between chronic inflammation and tissue destruction in the lungs of patients with chronic ...
Jan 11, 2019
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Inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma, COPD and, most recently, COVID-19, have proven difficult to treat. Current therapies reduce symptoms and do little to stop such diseases from continuing to damage the lungs. Much ...
Feb 23, 2021
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University of Louisville researchers have found a less toxic way to deliver medicines by using the natural lipids in plants, particularly grapefruit and ginger.
Nov 30, 2020
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A team of researchers from the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center has found that neural exosomes—"cargo" molecules within the nervous system that carry messages to the brain—can minimize or even avert ...
Dec 12, 2019
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Researchers at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute of Bellvitge, the Catalan Institute of Oncology and the University Hospital of Bellvitge have participated in an international study published in the journal Cancer ...
Nov 13, 2014
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Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have used exosomes—tiny bubbles of protein and fat produced naturally by cells—to bypass the body's defenses and deliver a potent antioxidant directly to ...
May 4, 2015
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A group of scientists led by Ramkumar Menon at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have gained new insight on a poorly-understood key player in the timing of labor and delivery. This new information brings ...
Feb 12, 2019
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When tiny particles called exosomes, which shuttle signals between cells, are defective in diabetic patients, they can drive inflammation and impair healing of wounds, according to a new Nano Today study led by University ...
Sep 8, 2023
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