Certain brain tumors in small children contain cells that develop very similarly to normal brain cells and others that have already developed malignantly, depending on where they are located within the tumor.
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A pair of proteins, YAP and TAZ, has been identified as conductors of bone development in the womb and could provide insight into genetic diseases such as osteogenesis imperfecta, known commonly as "brittle bone disease."
Jan 4, 2024
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If you're having trouble sleeping, perhaps contact with a bedmate is causing the problem, say University of Michigan researchers.
Dec 27, 2023
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Wearable medical sensors have opened doors for remote health monitoring and treatment evaluation. But making diagnoses and treatment plans based on many datapoints—such as muscle movements, heart rate, breathing or speaking ...
Dec 19, 2023
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B cell deficiency is a common condition that can result either from immunosuppressant drugs used to treat autoimmune disease or certain cancers—such as rituximab (RTX)—or from natural immune deficiency. These patients ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have published an atlas of zebrafish development, detailing the gene expression programs that are activated within nearly every cell type during the first five days of development, ...
Dec 18, 2023
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A study led by David Berry and Alessandra Riva from the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna has significantly advanced our understanding of prebiotics in nutrition ...
Dec 14, 2023
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In a first-of-its-kind study published in Nature, researchers in the lab of Edward Chang, MD, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recorded activity from hundreds of individual neurons while participants ...
Dec 14, 2023
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The immune system can carry out many biological processes, from killing viruses to fighting cancer, thanks in large part to approximately 100 key cell-signaling proteins called cytokines, which instruct immune cells what ...
Dec 7, 2023
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Drug development for lung diseases is complicated. Most clinical trials that test novel drugs fail due to the fact that laboratory models cannot accurately replicate human physiology.
Dec 6, 2023
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