Pancreatic cancer is one of the most insidious forms of the disease, in which an average of only 9% of patients are alive five years after diagnosis. One of the reasons for such a dismal outcome is that pancreatic cancer ...
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Why is it that you can remember the name of your childhood best friend that you haven't seen in years yet easily forget the name of a person you just met a moment ago? In other words, why are some memories stable over decades, ...
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Investigators are constantly aiming to identify new therapeutic approaches for regenerative medicine. Recent strategies have focused on harnessing the power of the body's own tissue healing and repair mechanisms, including ...
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Why do some people feel itchy after a mosquito bite or exposure to an allergen like dust or pollen, while others do not? A new study has pinpointed the reason for these differences, finding the pathway by which immune and ...
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The risk gene adenylyl cyclase 2 is associated with bipolar disorder, as has been repeatedly confirmed in genome-wide association studies. However, until now there has not been any proof of a causal relationship.
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Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) School of Dentistry have created a first-of-its-kind sleep apnea model for studying chronic pain. A study published in Science ...
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Investigators have discovered that aberrant activation of a specific oncoprotein drives key tumor-promoting changes in the prostate tissue microenvironment during cancer progression, according to a Northwestern Medicine study ...
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Deep in the brain, sheets of tissue known as the choroid plexus produce cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and act as a protective barrier between the brain and CSF. But the lab of Maria Lehtinen, Ph.D., at Boston Children's Hospital ...
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A new study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Boston Children's Hospital and published in Nature Immunology shows how tumors grow by avoiding the immune system.
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Research from Radboud university medical center reveals that T cells from the adaptive immune system can manipulate the memory of innate immune cells. Previously, it was believed that the memory of innate immune cells operated ...
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