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Sophisticated "Hack" Allows Intracellular Bacteria To Evade the Immune Response
Intracellular bacteria are able to evade the immune response by infecting macrophages, triggering the death of the host cell, then using it as a shield to avoid the antimicrobial action of other immune cells.
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Adjusting Diet To Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence
Researchers have received a grant to look at the relationship between obesity and breast cancer.
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Targeting the Oncogenic Protein RAS With Small Molecules
Researchers have demonstrated a new therapeutic way to block RAS, a protein that is frequently mutated in cancers.
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Do We Need Words To Think About Numbers?
A study suggests that in order to represent an exact quantity larger than four, people may need to have a word for that number.
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Newly Discovered Effect of Hyperthyroidism on the Brain
According to a study, hyperthyroidism affects the brain more than was previously known and involves volume changes occurring in central parts of the brain.
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Vaccines Effective Against Omicron Because It Contains Previously Identified Mutations
Researchers say that existing vaccines are effective against the Omicron variant as all but one of the mutations it contains had been described before that.
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Agricultural Fungicides May Be Promoting Antimicrobial Resistance
New research has shown that compounds used to fight fungal diseases in plants are causing resistance to antifungal medications used to treat people.
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Vibrio cholerae Protein Causes Membrane Remodeling Through a Novel Mechanism
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.
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Cell Cultures Are Not As Stable as You'd Think
According to research, culture environments of different cell types growing in culture vessels or Petri dishes vary significantly from each other and from conditions in the living body.
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Who's Responsible for All the Roadside Rubbish?
Research reveals that items in litter typically originate less than two miles from where they’re found — and unless humans remove them, most of these items will never leave the environment.
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