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A new study has discovered that the brain’s ability to clear the protein amyloid-β 42 (Aβ42) – which plays a key role in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis – is linked to our circadian rhythms. The results are published in PLoS Genetics.

Research has identified potential biomarkers for neuropsychiatric symptoms of lupus.

A new study has found that extracellular magnesium levels affect T-cell responses both in vitro and in vivo.

New insights into the bacterial type VI secretion system could one day help to develop antibacterial and antifungal applications.

Previous studies have shown how fasting can influence the immune system to improve different chronic inflammatory conditions, but little was known about how immune responses might determine a healthy metabolism, until now.

Research has led to the discovery of a pH-induced structural mechanism of membrane remodeling caused by the protein MakA, a subunit of a toxin from the pathogenic bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

Researchers have determined how sexual attractiveness is passed on, and that it occurs not through modification of the worm’s DNA, but instead through the transfer of small RNAs.

Researchers have discovered a new mechanistic target for drug development

Machine learning has been used to show that certain microbiome profiles of the lung following lung transplantation can provide prognostic information.

Scientists have identified a mechanism that triggers a problematic interaction between intestinal bacteria and cells in the intestinal mucus layer in a condition associated with inflammatory bowel disease.