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Deep within the cellular landscape, a quiet failure was taking place, impeding a potentially successful form of cancer treatment. For years, scientists hoped an essential part of the innate immune system that detects foreign ...

Why do some joints remain chronically inflamed in osteoarthritis and other rheumatic diseases? Researchers have taken an important step toward answering this question. Their findings, published in the journal Cell Death & ...

Rice University and collaborators in Switzerland have developed a platform to grow human-derived nerve cells and Schwann cells, supporting cells that form a protective coating called myelin around nerve fibers. This platform ...

Mass General Brigham Heart and Vascular Institute researchers have found that high-risk patients who had not previously experienced a heart attack or stroke had a lower risk of death after taking the cholesterol-lowering ...

A new phase 1 clinical trial has found that an emerging immunotherapy is promising for treating recurrent glioblastoma, a highly aggressive and fatal brain cancer. Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy is a form ...

We tend to think of age as a linear progression marked by birthdays and milestones dictating when we can vote, drink, rent a car or pass beyond the crest of an arbitrary metaphorical hill. When scientists look at how organs ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that chemical signals produced by gut bacteria work together to control intestinal movement. One bacterial signal helps set the intestines in motion, while another primes gut cells ...

More than 40% of American women ages 40 and older have dense breast tissue, according to the National Cancer Institute. This type of tissue can make cancer harder to spot on mammograms and is itself associated with a higher ...

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) has a frustrating ability to adapt. Although this aggressive form of breast cancer can initially respond well to chemotherapy, cancer cells often find ways to survive, allowing the disease ...

Spatial transcriptomics is a powerful tool for creating a detailed map of not just how genes are expressed in a piece of tissue, but also where genetic activity takes place in different cells and locations within the tissue. ...

In their quest to understand how cancers take root, grow and spread, scientists have for the past half-century explored the genetic aberrations and microenvironmental peculiarities of tumors and their constituent cells. Such ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego shows that the brain does not simply respond to breathing as a steady rhythm. Instead, the detailed shape of each individual breath is closely linked ...