by Katharina Kalhoff and Ole Kamm, Berlin Institute of Health in der Charité Credit: Brain Simulation Section, BIH, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin For the first time, researchers led by Professor Dr. Petra Ritter’s team have succeeded in explaining the propagation of traveling waves of activity in the human brain using a computer simulation. Previous studies...
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Study identifies specific drugs that can prevent disease-causing activity of key immune cells
by Julie Cunningham, Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Macrophages are key cells of the immune system with many important beneficial functions, but they can also exacerbate many common diseases. Macrophages that are polarized—or activated—into a type called M1 can suppress the growth of blood vessels and tumors. In contrast, M2-type polarized macrophages can exacerbate tumor...
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How does the structure of cytolysins influence their activity?
by Ananya Sen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign First author and van der Donk lab member Imran Rahman (left) with Richard E. Heckert Professor of Chemistry Wilfred van der Donk. Credit: Jillian Nickel Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the bacterial community in the human gut, it can also cause several infections, including...