Immunosuppressive treatment is necessary to prevent rejection of an organ after transplant and has great potential for treating chronic inflammatory diseases. However, currently available immunosuppressant drugs can pose ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 12, 2009
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A human rights activist and a group of anthropologists and human biologists are casting a critical lens on the way that microbiome research is conducted with Indigenous peoples.
Cell & Microbiology
May 16, 2022
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A new approach that uses artificial intelligence (AI) shows how to use microorganisms in the body and molecules in cells to predict human health outcomes, according to Penn State College of Medicine and University of Texas ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2022
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If you wish scientists would figure out a solution for a medical problem you face, or find answers for a loved one who struggles with a health condition, here's your chance.
Social Sciences
Mar 7, 2016
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Certain bacteria that inhabit the intestine provide the environmental trigger that initiates and perpetuates chronic intestinal inflammation in individuals who are genetically susceptible to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 16, 2010
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Creating a mutation that inhibits how the bacterial pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted infection, could offer a new way to prevent and treat the disease, according to researchers ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 23, 2022
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A team of scientists from the University of Colorado and EMSL has characterized the biology of CD147, a type I transmembrane protein involved in the progression of inflammatory diseases, infections, and cancer—especially ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 7, 2011
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Many of us have heard about inflammatory bowel disease, a debilitating condition that is associated with an abnormal collection of microbes in the human gut—known as the gut microbiome. My lab recently found that, like ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2020
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Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have constructed a mathematical and computational model of inflammatory bowel disease that allows researchers to simulate the cellular and molecular ...
Other
Jul 22, 2010
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Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new radio-labeled molecule capable of selectively reacting with certain high-energy radicals that are characteristic of innate immune activity, ...
Biotechnology
Feb 21, 2022
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