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A new study identifies an extreme but effective way that brain immune cells can prevent the parasite Toxoplasma gondii from spreading: they kill themselves to eliminate the dangerous microbes they ...

Researchers have identified a biological mechanism that helps explain why some lung and ovarian cancers become resistant to ...

New research from the University of Oklahoma, published today in Cancer Cell, describes for the first time a "triangle ...

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By Hugo Francisco de Souza A novel CAR-T cell approach targets amyloid plaques in preclinical Alzheimer models, raising the ...

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