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Brain cells called astrocytes undergo reorganization and may engulf attacking T cells
Aug 20, 2008 |
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When virally infected cells in the brain called astrocytes come in contact with anti-viral T cells of the immune system, they undergo a unique series of changes that dramatically reorganize their shape and function, according ...
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Gene Therapy Hastens Healing Process in Chronic Leg Ulcers
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chronic wounds, including venous leg ulcers which are caused by poor circulation in the veins of the legs, are difficult and expensive to treat. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ...
Why Some Monkeys Don't Get AIDS
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two studies published this month in the Journal of Clinical Investigation provide a significant advance in understanding how some species of monkeys such as sooty mangabeys and African green ...
Understanding DNA Repair and Cancer
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A protein that plays a key role in copying DNA also plays a vital role in repairing breaks in it, UC Davis scientists have found. The work is helping researchers understand how cancer cells can resist radiation ...
Researchers identify gene that spurs deadly brain cancer
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have identified a new factor that is necessary for the development of many forms of medulloblastoma, the most common type of malignant childhood brain cancer.
New data show breakthrough microRNA-targeted therapy holds promise as new treatment for hepatitis C
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A study published online in this week's Science shows that SPC3649, a breakthrough microRNA-targeted therapy developed by Santaris Pharma A/S, holds promise as a novel treatment for patients infected with the Hepatitis C viru ...
Papillomavirus silences innate immune response
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In the 1980s, Harald zur Hausen and his co-workers discovered that specific types of human papillomavirus (HPV) cause cervical cancer. Scientists soon found out how these pathogens cause cells to degenerate. ...
By feeding the birds, you could change their evolutionary fate
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Feeding birds in winter is a most innocent human activity, but it can nonetheless have profound effects on the evolutionary future of a species, and those changes can be seen in the very near term. That's ...
Love hurts: Why emotional pain really affects us
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
15 hours ago |
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Have you ever felt overly upset by a social snubbing? Your genetics, not your friends, may be at fault.
Researchers find long awaited key to creating drought resistant crops
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Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have determined precisely how the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) works at the molecular level to help plants respond to environmental stresses such as drought and cold. ...
Epilepsy Drug Shows Promise in Treating Kidney Disease
Medicine & Health / Medications
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600,000 people in the United ...
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