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August 13 , 2020
Experimental treatment confers benefits for the alleviation of nonalcoholic hepatic steatosis
- Prof. Liu Hongwei's group and Prof. Liu Shuangjiang's group from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported the anti-NAFLD effects of a Ganoderma meroterpene derivative that increased the abundance of Bacteroides spp. to activate Bacteroides-folate-liver pathway and further alleviate nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
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August 12 , 2020
Flipping a metabolic switch to slow tumor growth
- The enzyme serine palmitoyl-transferase can be used as a metabolically responsive "switch" that decreases tumor growth, according to a new study by a team of San Diego scientists, who published their findings Aug. 12 in the journal Nature.
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August 11 , 2020
New machine learning tool predicts devastating intestinal disease in premature infants
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a life-threatening intestinal disease of prematurity. Characterized by sudden and progressive intestinal inflammation and tissue death, it affects up to 11,000 premature infants in the United States annually, and 15-30% of affected babies die from NEC. Survivors often face long-term intestinal and neurodevelopmental complic
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August 10 , 2020
Researchers characterize important regulators of tissue inflammation, fibrosis and regeneration
- Although macrophages (cells involved in the detection and destruction of bacteria and other harmful organisms as well as dead cells) are classified as immune cells functioning in the activation and resolution of tissue inflammation, it is now clear that they are critically involved in a variety of disease processes, such as chronic inflammatory diseases, tum
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July 30 , 2020
Researchers discover new set of channels connecting malaria parasite and blood cells
- Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have discovered another set of pore-like holes, or channels, traversing the membrane-bound sac that encloses the deadliest malaria parasite as it infects red blood cells. The channels enable the transport of lipids—fat-like molecules—between the blood cell and parasite, Plasmodium falcip
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