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Researchers ID gene critical to human immune response
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Researchers ID gene critical to human immune response

by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Credit: CC0 Public Domain Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified a gene that plays an essential role in the innate human immune system. The gene, NLRP11, helps activate the inflammatory response that tells the body’s white blood cells to go on the attack against a foreign presence. The findings, published in Nature Immunology, bring...

Gene critical to immune cell development identified
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Gene critical to immune cell development identified

Much of the three-dimensional architecture of the genome in antibody-producing immune cells is dependent on a gene called SMC3. When this gene is not working properly it can lead to improper immune cell development and to cancer, by disrupting how DNA is structured inside the cell nucleus, according to a team of researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine....