PROMISING CELL THERAPY OFFERS HOPE FOR RELAPSED OR REFRACTORY T-CELL LEUKAEMIA
A new cell therapy, targeting CD7 on leukaemia cells, gives a potentially effective treatment for patients with T-cell acute ...
Signaling pathway provides new insights into how cells recognize and repair DNA damage
Genome instability can cause numerous diseases. Cells have effective DNA repair mechanisms at their disposal. A research team ...
Here's why B cells benefit from booster shots
Certain infectious diseases, such as COVID or the flu, evolve constantly, shapeshifting just enough to outmaneuver our immune ...
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Researchers fully map neural connections of the fruit fly brain
A scientific team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) unveiled the first complete map of the neural connections of the common fruit fly brain. The map provides a wiring diagram, known ...
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Seeing double: Designing drugs that target 'twin' cancer proteins
Some proteins in the human body are easy to block with a drug; they have an obvious spot in their structure where a drug can fit, like a key in a lock. But other proteins are more difficult to target, ...
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TopOMetry systematically learns and evaluates the latent dimensions of single-cell atlases
A core task in single-cell data analysis is recovering the latent dimensions encoding the genetic and epigenetic landscapes inhabited by cell types and lineages. However, consensus is lacking for ...
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Children with Down’s syndrome are more likely to get leukaemia: stem-cells hint at why
Children with Down’s syndrome have a 150-fold increased risk of developing leukaemia than those without the condition. Now, ...