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T Cells Can Auto-Activate To Fight Tumors

Scientists have discovered a property of T cells that could inspire new anti-tumor therapeutics.
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Immune Cells Cross-Talk Can Worsen Multiple Sclerosis

Cross-talk between brain cells and peripheral immune cells can modulate the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). New findings reveal a previously unknown way in which the brain and immune system talk to each other and may identify a new therapeutic target for MS and other brain disorders.
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Worm Study Claims To Find Bacterial Cause for Parkinson's Disease

A new study in worms indicates a certain strain of bacteria may cause Parkinson's disease.
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Bacteria Could Help To Decarbonize Industry

Scientists find new route in bacteria to decarbonize industry. The discovery could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the manufacturing of fuels, drugs, and chemicals.
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Viruses May Alter the Carbon Cycle as the World Warms

Scientists have described how increasing temperatures could affect viruses and their microbial hosts.
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Stone Age Genomic Material Brought Back to Life

Breakthroughs will enable exploration of Earth’s biochemical past, with hopes of discovering new therapeutic molecules.
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Amazonian Dark Earth Could Be a “Secret Weapon” To Boost Reforestation

Researchers showed that Amazonian dark earth (ADE), soils enriched by Amerindian people thousands of years ago, increases the establishment and growth of seedlings of tree species important for reforestation.
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AI Could Enable 10,000 Robot-Led Microbe Experiments Per Day

Automation uncovers combinations of amino acids that feed two bacterial species and could tell us much more about the 90% of bacteria that humans have hardly studied.
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Brain Immune Cells Could Play Role in Seizures

Research into how the brain responds to seizures could facilitate the development of treatments for patients who don’t respond to existing options.
Superresolution image of a group of killer T cells (green and red) surrounding a cancer cell (blue, center).
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Exhausted Immune Cells Revived in New Cancer Immunotherapy Approach

Researchers have found a new way to reduce T cell exhaustion even in tumors that are resistant to clinically approved immunotherapies.
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