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From Flies to Families: How a Gene Variant May Shield Against Seizures
A gene variant identified in a family and studied in a fruit fly model may offer protection against a rare X-linked seizure ...
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Infographic: Plants Deploy Exosomes to Stop Alien Invaders
A s fungal pathogens sink their feeding apparatuses into host cells, plants can fight back by shooting out vesicles packed with defensive molecules. When identifying vesicles thought to be exosomes, ...
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Timing Nutrition to Boost Antitumor Immunity
To assess whether NK cells were involved in antitumor response generated by fasting, Delconte and her team depleted these ...
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Infographic: How Immunotherapy Could Boost Stem-Like T Cells
The body’s defense system against infection also fights tumors, generating tumor resident stem-like T cells and killer T cells that express inhibitory receptors such as PD-1. When PD-1 binds to PD-L1 ...
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What Makes Malaria-Infected Cells Stick
Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular ...
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Charting Crescents, 1910
On the day after Christmas, 1904, Walter Clement Noel staggered into Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, suffering from respiratory distress. An intern, Ernest Irons, carried out routine tests on Noel’s ...
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How Are Earwax and Body Odor Linked?
Laura is an assistant editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD in biomedical sciences from Rush University by studying how circadian rhythms and alcohol affect the gut. View Full Profile. Learn ...
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Synthetic T Cells Provide Precision Immunosuppression
Scientists engineered T cells to protect instead of kill, potentially enabling targeted treatments for autoimmune disease and ...
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DNA Droplets in Motion Accelerate Gene Discovery
Laura is an assistant editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD in biomedical sciences from Rush University by studying how circadian rhythms and alcohol affect the gut.
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The Superpowers of Genetically Modified Pigs
Scientists have engineered swine that pollute less, fend off disease, and produce more meat, but you won’t find them outside experimental farms . . . yet. Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director ...
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What’s the Difference Between Cas9 and Cas12a Nucleases?
Danielle is an Assistant Editor at The Scientist. She has a background in neuroscience and molecular psychiatry. She has previously written for BioTechniques News, The Scientist, and Drug Discovery ...
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The Misunderstood Proteins of Neurodegeneration
The normal functions of peptides that aggregate in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s have been largely overlooked by scientists, but some argue that they are critical for understanding the ...