Researchers at McGill University are hopeful that the identification of the origin and a specific gene needed for tumour growth could lead to new therapeutics to treat a deadly brain cancer that arises in teens and young adults. The discovery relates to a subgroup of glioblastoma, a rare but aggressive form of cancer that typically proves...
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA IMAGE: FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, THE EXPERTS JESÚS PLANAGUMÀ, MARC CARCELES CORDON AND JOSEP DALMAU. Anti-NMDAR encephalitis is an autoimmune brain illness that is often mistaken by a psychiatric disorder since it causes psychoses and other behaviour alterations. Despite having these similarities, the illness does not respond to common antipsychotic treatments. A...
by Stanford University Medical Center 3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19–in front of a 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. The spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells. On the virus model, the virus surface (blue) is covered with spike proteins (red)...
Summary: Scientists have developed a new understanding of how the first blood cells form during human development as they transition from endothelial cells to form blood cells of different types. Scientists at Lund University, Sweden have developed a new understanding of how the first blood cells form during human embryogenesis as they show transition from...
