Cancer’s spread to distant organs can now be studied using lab-grown bone, lung, and blood vessel tissues. Cancer becomes far more dangerous when it stops being confined to one place. Most cancer deaths are not caused by the original tumor, but by cells that break away, travel through the bloodstream, and establish new tumors in […]
A New Human Organ Chip Reveals How Cancer Invades the Body
Cancer’s spread to distant organs can now be studied using lab-grown bone, lung, and blood vessel tissues. Cancer becomes far more dangerous when it stops being confined to one place. Most cancer deaths are not caused by the original tumor, but by cells that break away, travel through the bloodstream, and establish new tumors in […]
Scientists Discover Immune Cells Are Eating Living Neurons in ALS
Salk Institute scientists found that immune cells in the central nervous system identify and kill specific nerve cells in the spinal cords of mice with late-stage ALS, worsening the disease. The findings could help inform new approaches to cancer and autoimmune therapies. In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the nerve cells that control movement gradually die, […]
These Toads Are Surviving a Deadly Fungus – Scientists May Finally Know Why
Earlier development of diverse antimicrobial peptides may help some toad populations survive devastating chytrid fungus outbreaks. A deadly fungus has devastated frog and toad populations around the world, yet some groups eventually begin to recover even while the pathogen remains. Researchers led by University College London (UCL), ZSL, and Imperial College London have now identified […]
These Toads Are Surviving a Deadly Fungus – Scientists May Finally Know Why
Earlier development of diverse antimicrobial peptides may help some toad populations survive devastating chytrid fungus outbreaks. A deadly fungus has devastated frog and toad populations around the world, yet some groups eventually begin to recover even while the pathogen remains. Researchers led by University College London (UCL), ZSL, and Imperial College London have now identified […]
These Toads Are Surviving a Deadly Fungus – Scientists May Finally Know Why
Earlier development of diverse antimicrobial peptides may help some toad populations survive devastating chytrid fungus outbreaks. A deadly fungus has devastated frog and toad populations around the world, yet some groups eventually begin to recover even while the pathogen remains. Researchers led by University College London (UCL), ZSL, and Imperial College London have now identified […]
These Brain Cells May Explain Why We Eventually Have To Sleep
The longer we stay awake, the more certain brain cells appear to turn up the pressure to sleep, eventually making rest nearly impossible to resist. Sleep drive is the biological pressure to rest that builds during waking hours, making it increasingly difficult to stay alert. After prolonged wakefulness, it typically produces longer, deeper recovery sleep, […]
Scientists Discover Hidden Cells That Help Lung Cancer Evade the Immune System
Newly identified CHL1 fibroblasts may help lung cancers escape immune attack by recruiting regulatory T cells around tumors. A previously unknown population of fibroblasts appears to help lung tumors hide from the immune system by drawing suppressive T cells to the edge of the cancer. Columbia University researchers found that these CHL1-expressing cells can create […]
Scientists Discover Hidden Cells That Help Lung Cancer Evade the Immune System
Newly identified CHL1 fibroblasts may help lung cancers escape immune attack by recruiting regulatory T cells around tumors. A previously unknown population of fibroblasts appears to help lung tumors hide from the immune system by drawing suppressive T cells to the edge of the cancer. Columbia University researchers found that these CHL1-expressing cells can create […]
Scientists Discover Hidden Cells That Help Lung Cancer Evade the Immune System
Newly identified CHL1 fibroblasts may help lung cancers escape immune attack by recruiting regulatory T cells around tumors. A previously unknown population of fibroblasts appears to help lung tumors hide from the immune system by drawing suppressive T cells to the edge of the cancer. Columbia University researchers found that these CHL1-expressing cells can create […]