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Scientists Find Dissimilar Proteins Evolved Similar 7-Part Shape
Described this week in the journal Nature, the work brings attention to what scientists have thought of as a family of molecules called the G protein-coupled…
La Jolla Institute identifies molecular switch enabling immune cells to better fight disease
A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has discovered the mechanism that enables CD4 helper T cells to assume the more…
Super-fine sound beam could one day be an invisible scalpel
Today's ultrasound technology enables far more than glimpses into the womb. Doctors routinely use focused sound waves to blast apart kidney stones and prostate…
Leukemia patients remain in remission more than 2 years after engineered T cell therapy
Nine of twelve leukemia patients who received infusions of their own T cells after the cells had been genetically engineered to attack the patients' tumors…
Gene that causes tumor disorder linked to increased breast cancer risk
New Johns Hopkins research showing a more than four-fold increase in the incidence of breast cancer in women with neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1) adds to growing…
Stem cell finding could advance immunotherapy for lung cancer
John C. Morris, MD, and his colleagues report their findings in the Nov. 13, 2012, issue of PLOS One, a peer-reviewed online publication that features original…