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Brooke Emerling, Ph.D., co-director of, and associate professor in, the Cancer Metabolism and Microenvironment Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys, is contributing to a revival of interest in an underappreciated set of enzymes called phosphatidylinositol-5-phosphate 4-kinases (PI5P4Ks). In a study published in Science Signaling, Emerling and co-senior author Raymond Blind, Ph.D., at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, shared new findings which open up research avenues to tackle aggressive cancers.

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Wistar Institute’s Paul M. Lieberman, Ph.D., and lab, have demonstrated how B cells infected with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can contribute to a pathogenic, inflammatory phenotype that contributes to multiple sclerosis (MS); the group has also shown how these problematic B cells can be selectively targeted in a way that reduces the damaging autoimmune response of multiple sclerosis.

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Mercy Medical Center in conjunction with Zinnia Films has received a Bronze Telly Award for excellence for its ongoing talk show series, “Medoscopy”, in the "Public Awareness & Interest - ONLINE" category.

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UC San Diego Assistant Professor of Physics Mattia Serra and colleagues at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) have developed a new method that can manipulate the movement of embryonic cells using short-time attractors — a concept Serra had previously developed and adopted to help search and rescue operations at sea.

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Irvine, Calif., May 28, 2024 — A multidisciplinary research team at the University of California, Irvine has revealed that the circadian clock – the biological pacemaker that governs daily rhythms in physiological processes, including immune functions – can be leveraged to enhance the efficacy of checkpoint inhibitor cancer therapy.

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Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital designed an intersectional technique for precisely targeting subpopulations of cells and parsing out specific functions.

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The 149th Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association (ANA) will explore new frontiers in neurology, including the significant progress made in our understanding of the major mutations causing ALS, recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) that help us better understand the causes, prognosis, and treatment of neurological disease, and new information about encephalitis, a rare and devastating neurologic disease.

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A team of Grainger Engineering researchers aim to create the underpinning science and technology required to enable solid-state rechargeable lithium batteries through a grant from the US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL).

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In a study published online ahead of print in Cancer Research, a team of Moffitt Cancer Center researchers introduce a novel framework that leverages deep reinforcement learning to tailor adaptive treatment schedules, potentially doubling the time to progression compared to current standard-of-care protocols.

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Dr. Kim Joohee from the Bionics Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Professor John A. Rogers from Northwestern University jointly announced the development of a convenient sweat monitoring device that does not require physical activity but delivers drug stimulation through the skin.