WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS HAVE IDENTIFIED ‘NATURAL KILLER’ CELLS AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF ANTI-TUMOUR IMMUNITY TO LUNG CANCER. IMAGE: SECTIONS OF LUNG CONTAINING TUMOURS, BY DR KAREN DOGGETT Immune cells called ‘natural killer’ (NK) cells could be a powerful weapon for fighting lung cancer, according to Australian researchers. Studying preclinical and...
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. An extensive international study led by Prof. Illana Gozes of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry found deposits of the tau protein typically found in Alzheimer’s patients in tissues taken from the postmortem brain of a 7-year-old autistic child. The child suffered from the ADNP syndrome,...
GEOMAR research group successfully applies bioinformatics methods and machine learning in marine drug discovery HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL (GEOMAR) BALTIC SEA SEAWEED FUCUS VESICULOSUS AND ITS FUNGAL SYMBIONT WERE INVESTIGATED IN THIS STUDY. view more CREDIT: LARISSA BÜDENBENDER Healing with the help of marine organisms is no utopia. Already 12 life-saving drugs, e.g....
The study shows that the involvement of certain genes that predispose to cancer also affects the immune system, which could facilitate tumor growth. In the specific case of breast cancer, the involvement of the SH2B3 gene, corresponding to a lymphocyte protein, increases the predisposition to develop cancer. The idea that the immune system “monitors and...
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have developed and tested a new computational tool, Candidate Driver Analysis (CaDrA), which will search for combinations of factors that are likely to cause a specific disease. CaDrA recognizes that diseases are complex and likely induced by multiple causes. It is now available free to members of...
