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Free radicals discovery could enhance leukaemia treatment

18 April, 2023

Researchers have identified a strategy to silence the production of free radicals in leukaemia cells, in turn strengthening their response to current therapies.


Cellular identity discovery takes scientists by surprise

14 April, 2023

The new discovery in stem cells — initially believed to be an error in the lab — has potential translational impacts in cancer biology and associated targeted treatments.


Men and women found to have different obesity drivers

12 April, 2023

Researchers used a data-driven approach to predict sex-specific obesity status based on multimodal brain signatures.


Bacteria can help the immune system destroy tumours

11 April, 2023

Introducing bacteria to a tumour's microenvironment creates a state of acute inflammation that triggers the immune system's primary responder cells to attack rather than protect a tumour.


Peanut allergy treatment shown to be long-lasting

06 April, 2023

Researchers have demonstrated that a treatment called sublingual immunotherapy is effective and safe, offering durable desensitisation to peanuts in peanut-allergic children.


Intracellular sensor warns of damage to mitochondria

05 April, 2023

Figuratively speaking, the molecule NLRP10 detects when the mitochondria in the cell start to smoke due to some malfunction.


Immune cells in gut linked to stress-induced depression

29 March, 2023

Researchers have identified an intestinal immune cell that impacts the gut microbiome, which in turn may affect brain functions linked to stress-induced disorders such as depression.


Healthy gut bacteria can boost immunotherapy effectiveness

27 March, 2023

Healthy bacteria can escape the intestine, travel to lymph nodes and cancerous tumours elsewhere in the body, and boost the effectiveness of certain immunotherapy drugs.


Immune cells' backup mechanism revealed

21 March, 2023

Human immune cells are able to maintain an effective antiviral response even when pathogen-induced degradation of the enzyme TBK1 occurs.


mRNA vaccine created for deadly bacteria

14 March, 2023

In what is believed to be a world first, researchers have developed an mRNA-based vaccine that is 100% effective against a type of bacteria that is lethal to humans.


Understanding the roots of autism

27 February, 2023

In Fragile X syndrome, sensory signals from the outside world are integrated differently, causing them to be underrepresented by cortical pyramidal neurons in the brain.


Potential new function of the lymphatic system: producing blood

20 February, 2023

Until now, it was believed that blood cells derived solely from stem cells found in bone marrow.


Commercial dishwashers may damage protective layer in gut

31 January, 2023

Swiss researchers have found that a particular ingredient found in commercial rinse agents has a toxic effect on the gastrointestinal tract.


Primordial germ cells produced from northern white rhinos

12 January, 2023

This is the first time that primordial germ cells of a large, endangered mammalian species have been successfully generated from stem cells, researchers say.


'Cell extrusion' could be responsible for vision loss

21 December, 2022

Visual cells in the human retina may not simply die in some diseases, but are in fact mechanically transported out of the retina beforehand.


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