Author: Mindzilla

Illumination of Immune Checkpoint LAG3 ‘Black Box’ Could Yield New Cancer and Autoimmune Therapies

April 19, 2022
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Pittsburgh, PA — Fighting cancer and chronic disease is tiring work for the immune system. When T cells are engaged in this kind of lengthy battle, they can become exhausted, or unable to function...

About 30% of COVID patients develop “Long COVID,” UCLA research finds

April 19, 2022
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Los Angeles, CA — New UCLA research finds that 30% of people treated for COVID-19 developed Post Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), most commonly known as “Long COVID.” People with a history of hospitalization,...

Automated CAST-R System Helps to Identify Best Antimicrobials to Fight Acute Blood Infections

April 19, 2022
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Beijing, China — When treating acute infections in patients, health care providers must be able to quickly and accurately identify the best antibiotics for fighting the infection. A research team...

Novel Therapeutic Agents May Reduce the Oncogenesis of Metastatic Prostate Cancer

April 13, 2022
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Philadelphia, PA – Researchers have found that treating prostate cancer cells with novel cyclin-dependent kinase 19 (CDK19) and homologous cyclin-dependent kinase 8 (CDK8) inhibitors reduces their...

How Do Fungal Infections Spread in the Human Lung?

April 13, 2022
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Jena, Germany — A chip-based infection model developed by researchers in Jena, Germany, enables live microscopic observation of damage to lung tissue caused by the invasive fungal infection aspergillosis....

New Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Is as Efficient as a Steam Turbine, Says Study

April 13, 2022
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Cambridge, MA — Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts. Their new demonstrations show that it converts heat to electricity...

Team Creates First Comprehensive Map of Human Blood Stem Cell Development

April 13, 2022
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Los Angeles, CA — UCLA scientists and colleagues have created a first-of-its-kind roadmap that traces each step in the development of blood stem cells in the human embryo, providing scientists with...

Researchers Map Lung Development After Birth Into Late Childhood for the First Time

April 12, 2022
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La Jolla, CA — How do the lungs develop after taking their first breaths outside the womb? What cellular events and changes early in life give rise to lung malfunction and disease? To help answer these...

Study Shows How Ovarian Cancer Defies Immunotherapy

April 12, 2022
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, with collaborators at La Jolla Institute for Immunology and elsewhere,...

Study Identifies Molecular Features Tied to Breast Cancer Tumor Spread

April 12, 2022
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New Orleans — Dr. Susana Garcia-Recio, a research associate in the lab of Dr. Charles M. Perou, at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will present findings that identified molecular features...

Study Reveals How to Rejuvenate the Immune System of Elderly People and Reduce Their Risk of Infectious Disease

April 12, 2022
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Irvine, CA — A new study, led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine, identifies a reason for why older adults are significantly more susceptible to infectious diseases than younger...

LED Lights Developed From Rice Husks

April 12, 2022
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Hiroshima, Japan — Milling rice to separate the grain from the husks produces about 100 million tons of rice husk waste globally each year. Scientists searching for a scalable method to fabricate quantum...

Researchers Adapt Technology Made for Astronomical Observations to Biomedical Imaging

April 7, 2022
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Kashiwa, Japan — Researchers have developed a biomedical imaging system using a semiconductor detector originally developed for hard X-ray and gamma-ray space observation, and used a spectral analysis...

Zinc-Air Battery With Improved Performance by Solar Power

April 7, 2022
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South Korea — Zinc-air batteries, which produce electricity through a chemical reaction between oxygen in the atmosphere and zinc, are considered to be next-generation candidates to meet the explosive...

Chemical Compound Promotes Healthy Ageing, Study Shows

April 7, 2022
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Baton Rouge, LA — A recently discovered chemical compound helped elderly mice with obesity lose fat and weight, add muscle and strength, reduce age-related inflammation and increase physical activity,...

Scientists Have Spotted the Farthest Galaxy Ever

April 7, 2022
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Cambridge, MA — An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical object ever: a galaxy. Named...

Researchers Rejuvenate Mouse Organs Through Cellular Reprogramming

April 6, 2022
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Barcelona, Spain — Many diseases, including cancer, are associated with ageing and they are becoming more prevalent as life expectancy increases. Therefore, studying and understanding these processes...

Newly Identified Neutrophil Subset Is a Promising Therapeutic Target

April 6, 2022
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Chicago, IL — Using a protein nanoparticle they designed, scientists at the University of Illinois Chicago have identified two distinct subtypes of neutrophils and found that one of the subtypes can...

Researchers Identify an Immunotherapy Target to Combat Glioblastomas

April 6, 2022
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Houston, TX — Houston Methodist researchers have identified the genetic and molecular fingerprints of different cancer and immune cells in glioblastoma, the deadliest and most common type of brain...

Biodegradable Gel Boosts Immune System’s Attack on Several Cancers in Mice

April 6, 2022
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Madison, WI — A new biodegradable gel improves the immune system’s ability to keep cancer at bay after tumours are surgically removed. The gel, tested in mice, releases drugs and special antibodies...

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