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Shedding Light on the Tumor Microenvironment During Gastric Cancer Progression

New research offers a deeper understanding of gastric cancer progression and identifies a potential therapeutic target.
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Using AI To Understand the Language of Molecules

This AI system only needs a small amount of data to predict molecular properties, which could speed up drug discovery and material development.
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Mitochondrial Function Impacts Immune Response in Children

In a new study, researchers found that altered B cell function in children with mitochondrial disorders led to a weaker and less diverse antibody response to viral infections
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Plant Cells “Push Away” the Cytoskeleton To Divide

While animal cells may use the cytoskeleton to pull materials during division, it seems that plant cells push the microtubules of the cytoskeleton away.
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Inner Ear Hair Cells Can "Self Repair" After Damage

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered how cells that let us hear can repair themselves after being damaged, an insight that could benefit efforts to treat and prevent hearing loss.
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Mitochondrial Genetic Disturbances Impact Immune System's T Cells

All cells have their own power plants, called mitochondria. There are often more than 100 mitochondria per cell and each possesses their own genome, which in turn contains genes responsible for energy production.
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Mystery of How Hepatitis C Virus Hides in Humans Solved

Hepatitis C was discovered in 1989 and is one of the most studied viruses on the planet. Yet for decades, how it manages to evade the human immune system and spread through the body has been a riddle.
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Glutaminase 2 Regulates Glucose Metabolism in Pancreatic β-Cells

Researchers have shown that pancreatic β-cell glutaminase 2 regulates glucose metabolism under the condition of hyperglycemia.
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T Cells Require Healthy “Power Plants”

Scientists have discovered that the T cells of the immune system are especially sensitive to genetic disturbances within their mitochondrial power plants.
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Artificial Cells Can Evolve Just As Quickly as Normal Cells

A research team found that the streamlined cell can evolve just as fast as a normal cell, demonstrating the capacity for organisms to adapt, even with an unnatural genome that would seemingly provide little flexibility.
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