by Lund University Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A common cause of myocardial infarction and stroke is the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. The exact location of plaque ruptures has previously been unknown, but now researchers at Lund University have mapped this. The research team has also identified an enzyme, a marker, that they hope will help predict who is at risk...
by Vanderbilt University Graphical abstract. Credit: Gastroenterology (2022). DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2022.06.021 A recently published study reveals new insights into how gastric cancer develops and suggests a preventive treatment. Eunyoung Choi, Ph.D., assistant professor of Surgery, and colleagues identified for the first time that Trop2+/CD133+/CD166+ dysplastic stem cellsare a key source of clonal evolution of dysplasia to multiple types of gastric cancer. Their investigation further...
