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NSF grant supports advances in cyberinfrastructure for multimodal imaging data

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Priming macrophage immune cells could supercharge certain cancer therapies.

An appetizer can stimulate immune cells’ appetite, a boon for cancer treatments
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Understanding aging on a cellular level
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Investigating the changing disease ecology of California
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Matt Perko
This is a story about proteins, how they malfunction, and what cells do to prevent that.

Researchers reveal a new approach for treating degenerative diseases
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Researchers uncover a potential method for interrupting the misfolding of tau protein that underlies neurodegenerative disease
Beijing’s Forbidden City lies shrouded in industrial smog.
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China’s infamous air pollution affects its citizens’ minds as well as their bodies.

Clearing the air reduces suicide rates
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Yarumal, a municipality in the foothills of the Andes north of Medellín, is one of several communities in Colombia that host a large kindred with a genetic form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease

Untangling a sticky mystery: Researchers make precious headway into a genetic form of Alzheimer’s disease
three blue-gray petri dishes against a black background testing the resistance of bacteria to antimicrobials

Researchers develop molecules for a new class of antibiotics that can overcome drug resistant bacteria
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A blue macrophage engulfs a magenta lymphocyte, as rendered by ChatGPT4.

When bad cells go good: harnessing cellular cannibalism for cancer treatment
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Clinical trial shows that the ketogenic diet is effective at controlling polycystic kidney disease
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Examining the effects of climate change and extreme weather on HIV
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Kenneth S. Kosik

A peek inside the quickening race to understand, treat — and even cure — Alzheimer’s disease
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