Understanding how the immune system responds to acute brain hemorrhage could open doors to identifying treatments for this devastating disease. However, up until now, there has been limited...
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Researchers at the Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) may have found a new pathway to treat and control tuberculosis (TB), the disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
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Scientists say they have discovered a potential new target for immunotherapy of malignant brain tumors, which so far have resisted the ground-breaking cancer treatment based on harnessing the body’s...
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Glioblastoma study could lead to new treatments, including better immunotherapies Glioblastoma is among the most aggressive and devastating of cancers. While rare compared with other cancers, it’s the...
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A team of Case Western Reserve University researchers has found a way to measure key characteristics of proteins that bind to RNA in cells—a discovery that could improve our understanding...
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The environment surrounding the cancerous cells of a lymphoma tumor has a strong influence on the progression of these blood-cell cancers and their responses to therapies, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. Measuring this...
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A new study suggests that differences in the expression of gene transcripts – readouts copied from DNA that help maintain and build our cells – may hold the key to understanding how mental...
Read More »RNA-Seq reveals a critical flaw in lab models of the human blood-brain barrier
Cells used to study the human blood brain barrier in the lab aren’t what they seem, throwing nearly a decade’s worth of research into question, a new...
Read More »Vaccine Technology: How mRNA Changed the Fight Against Covid-19
Focusing on genetic material called mRNA allowed researchers to overcome scientific barriers and develop the two vaccines now used in the United States. Here’s how it happened...
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Researchers say it is the most detailed analysis of the pouchitis cellular immune response to date, and enabled them to track step-by-step genetic activity...
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