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How Do Immune Cells Get Activated?

June 17, 2021
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Geneva, Switzerland — Chemokine receptors, located at the surface of many immune cells, play an important role in their function. Chemokines are small proteins that bind to these receptors and control...

New Super-Resolution Microscopy Method Approaches the Atomic Scale

June 17, 2021
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New York, NY — Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a computational technique that greatly increases the resolution of atomic force microscopy, a specialized type of microscope that...

New AI Model Helps Understand Virus Spread from Animals to Humans

June 17, 2021
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Gothenburg, Sweden — A new model that applies artificial intelligence to carbohydrates improves the understanding of the infection process and could help predict which viruses are likely to spread...

New Studies Identify How Tuberculosis Destroy the Lungs and How to Protect Them

June 16, 2021
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Southampton, UK — Two new studies have cast unprecedented light on disease processes in tuberculosis, identifying key genetic changes that cause damage in the lungs and a drug treatment that could...

New Model of Alzheimer’s Progression

June 15, 2021
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Phoenix, AZ — Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and is characterized by neurodegeneration in regions of the brain involved in memory and learning. Amyloid beta and tau are...

Novel Radiopharmaceutical Tracks ‘Master Switch’ Protein Responsible for Cancer Growth

June 15, 2021
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Reston, VA — A protein that is critical in cancer cell metabolism has been imaged for the first time with a newly developed radiopharmaceutical, 18F-DASA-23. Imaging with this novel agent has the potential...

A ‘Pump’ Gene’s Surprising Role in Early Brain Formation

June 15, 2021
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Boston, MA — In polymicrogyria, the cortex of the brain has many irregular, small folds (gyria) and disorganization of its layers. Many affected children have severe developmental delay, intellectual...

Stents Inspired by Paper-Cutting Art can Deliver Drugs to GI Tract

June 15, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — Inspired by kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and cutting paper to create three-dimensional structures, MIT engineers and their collaborators have designed a new type of stent that...

Hair Follicles Heal Blisters at Personal Cost

June 15, 2021
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Hokkaido, Japan — A team of scientists has shown that the healing of skin blisters is driven by hair follicle stem cells, which delay their own development in the process. The healing process of...

High Genetic Running Capacity Promotes Efficient Metabolism with Ageing

June 15, 2021
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Jyväskylä, Finland — High running capacity is associated with health and longevity. However, whether high genetic running capacity promotes more efficient metabolism with ageing is not known. A new...

Harmful Protein Waste in the Muscle

June 15, 2021
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Bonn, Germany — An international team of researchers led by the University of Bonn (Germany) has identified the cause of a rare, severe muscle disease. According to these findings, a single spontaneously...

Toward the First Drug to Treat a Rare, Lethal Liver Cancer

June 15, 2021
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New York, NY — Treatment options for a deadly liver cancer, fibrolamellar carcinoma, are severely lacking. Drugs that work on other liver cancers are not effective, and although progress has been made...

Memory Biomarkers Confirm Aerobic Exercise Helps Cognitive Function in Older Adults

June 14, 2021
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Boca Raton, FL — Increasing evidence shows that physical activity and exercise training may delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In ageing humans, aerobic exercise training...

Pinpointing How Cancer Cells Turn Aggressive

June 14, 2021
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Philadelphia, PA — It’s often cancer’s spread, not the original tumour, that poses the disease’s most deadly risk. “And yet metastasis is one of the most poorly understood...

AI Predicts How Patients with Viral Infections, Including COVID-19, will Fare

June 14, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine used an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to sift through terabytes of gene expression data — which genes...

An Omega-3 that’s Poison for Tumours

June 14, 2021
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Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium — So-called “good fatty acids” are essential for human health and much sought after by those who try to eat healthily. Among the Omega-3 fatty acids, DHA or docosahexaenoic...

Meiosis: Mind the Gap

June 11, 2021
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Wien, Austria — Scientists from the lab of Franz Klein from the Department of Chromosome Biology at the Max Perutz Labs, a joint venture of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna,...

Rapamycin Changes the Way Our DNA is Stored

June 11, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Our genetic material is stored in our cells in a specific way to make the meter-long DNA molecule fit into the tiny cell nucleus of each body cell. An international team of researchers...

Protein in Prostate Cancer may Inhibit Tumor Growth

June 10, 2021
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Athens, GA — Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men, according to the American Cancer Society. It’s also one of the trickiest cancers to diagnose and treat. But new research...

Scientists Discover Immune Cell Behaviour that Plays a Key Role in Alzheimer’s Disease

June 10, 2021
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Southampton, UK — A new study has pinpointed a small group of cells in the brain which could be crucial to understanding how Alzheimer’s disease begins and how to slow its progression. This discovery...

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