As cancers grow and spread in the human body, they tend to become more aggressive over time, and this can accelerate during treatment as they develop resistance to drugs. In prostate cancers, some evolve into a rare, treatment-resistant ...
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In a preclinical breakthrough that could transform cell therapies for incurable diseases, researchers at Sinai Health and the University of Toronto have developed a technology that may one day eliminate the need for immunosuppressive ...
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Immune-regulating brain cells known as microglia are known to play a role in the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital explores how the genetics of microglia ...
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Some viruses move between species. For example, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can spill over from humans to mink, an agricultural species, and then spill back from mink to humans. Spillback is a concern because ...
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A research group led by Nagoya University's Graduate School of Engineering has uncovered how rapid tendon regeneration occurs in newts. The research, published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, compared the regeneration ...
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The evolution of higher cognitive functions in human beings has so far mostly been linked to the expansion of the neocortex—a region of the brain that is responsible, inter alia, for conscious thought, movement and sensory ...
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Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a method for assessing the number and structure of aggregated blood platelets (or thrombocytes) that can potentially help quantify the risk of a severe ...
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A new study reveals for the first time the steps through which human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) binds to the receptors on the membranes of T cells—white blood cells that fight infection. The finding could have implications ...
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Optimal windows exist for action and perception during the 0.8 seconds of a heartbeat, according to research published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology. The sequence of contraction and relaxation is linked to changes ...
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A new paper in Science Advances details how scientists have succeeded in mapping a central part of the immune system—the HLA class II molecules—while accurately predicting how they display fragments of pathogens on the ...
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