Modified herpes virus shows promise killing off cancer cells – with one patient seeing disease vanish | UK News
A modified herpes virus has shown promise killing off cancer cells – with one patient seeing the disease vanish entirely.
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Study illuminates precancerous ‘clonal outgrowth’ in blood cells
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A common, spontaneous mutation in blood stem cells, which has been linked to higher risks of
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‘Walls full of pain’: Russia’s torture cells in Ukraine
As emergency workers carry away remains in a white body bag, Olena Kazabekhov looks on, caught between hope and dread.
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Single-cell transcriptomics of immune cells in lymph nodes reveals their alterations during bubonic plague development
Single-cell RNA sequencing was performed in the lymph nodes of mice at 2h and 24h post infection with Y. pestis,
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Cell membranes play a larger role than thought in allowing spike proteins on viruses to infect cells
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain University of Alberta research shows how cell membranes play a much larger role than previously understood
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COVID-19 mutations accelerated by virus-fighting enzyme in human cells, according to new research
Local sequence context at the APOBEC-edited C sites on SARS-CoV-2 RNA. (A) Local sequences around the significantly edited target C
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How human cells become Zika virus factories
Transmission electron microscope image of Zika virus (red). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
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Immune cells engineered to battle cancer can be turned ‘on’ or ‘off’
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The billions of immune cells that help protect us from diseases do amazing things, but sometimes
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T cells that ‘nibble’ tumors unwittingly help cancer evade the immune response
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The immune system is equipped to respond not just to external invaders—think viruses, bacteria, and parasites—but
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Researchers use stem cells to investigate liver damage from the Ebola virus
Ebola virus particles (red) on a larger cell. Credit: NIAID The Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 near the
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Cells help immune system tolerate friendly gut bacteria
Histologic image of the healthy mouse intestine where the mucosal immune system must remain tolerant to trillions of beneficial microbes,
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Patients with some forms of aggressive esophageal cancers may benefit from treatment targeting how cells self-regulate
Very high magnification micrograph of eosinophilic esophagitis, also eosinophilic oesophagitis. Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Research led by Case Western Reserve
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Cellular ‘waste product’ rejuvenates cancer-fighting immune cells
UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center found that lactate, a metabolic byproduct produced by cells during strenuous exercise, can rejuvenate immune
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Oxygen responses of T cells alter protection against tuberculosis
T cell activation and differentation. Credit: Karolinska Institutet In a new publication in Nature Communications, Martin Rottenberg and Ruining Liu,
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Researchers describe how birch pollen affects immune cells
APE exposure induces transcriptional changes in moDC. (A) IL-12p70 content in supernatants of moDC stimulated with 100 ng/mL LPS, in
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New participating cells and supportive drug identified
Myelin sheath. Credit: Wikipedia. Regeneration in the CNS is a rare event and strongly limited to the replacement of so-called
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When Alzheimer’s degrades cells that cross hemispheres, visual memory suffers
Scientists traced and studied neurons that connect the visual cortices in each hemisphere of the brain. Credit: Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan/MIT PIcower
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Researchers identify the target of immune attacks on liver cells in metabolic disorders
Illustration of human liver anatomy. Credit: Shutterstock When fat accumulates in the liver, the immune system may assault the organ.
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New method enables long-lasting imaging of rapid brain activity in individual cells deep in the cortex
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As you are reading these words, certain regions of your brain are displaying a flurry of
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New method detects gut microbes that activate immune cells
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a method to help identify which human gut microbes are most likely
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