Non-essential amino acids such as glutamine have been known to be required for T cell general activation through sustaining basic biosynthetic processes, including nucleotide biosynthesis, ATP ...

A rare blood disorder, alpha thalassemia, affects thousands of people. About 5% to 20% of the world population carries one or ...

People are exposed to millions of fungal spores every day, even potentially harmful ones like those from Aspergillus ...

People are constantly exposed to fungal spores, including those of Aspergillus fumigatus, but individuals with weakened ...

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has announced an expansion of resources and educational outreach for Sickle Cell Awaren ...

Discover how doctors at Johns Hopkins All Children's were able to cure a patient born with sickle cell disease thanks to her ...

It sounds like science fiction. Scientists take ordinary skin or blood cells, rewind them to a stem-cell state, then reprogram them into a kind of youthful immune cell. They then inject these into an ...

New research suggests that your body parts start aging at different times, with some organs showing changes as early as 30.

Precancerous cells, also called premalignant cells, are abnormal cells that have changes in how they look or grow. The cells are not cancer, but they show changes that raise the risk of turning into ...

1 Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China 2 The First School of Clinical Medicine, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang ...

Background: Cisplatin (DDP) is a clinical first-line chemotherapy drug for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but treatment is often ineffective due to drug resistance. Yes-associated protein 1 (YAP1) is ...