Exposure to air pollution could be a factor, experts suggest.
Living Near a Major Highway Tied to Developmental Delays in Children
Exposure to air pollution could be a factor, experts suggest.
Gender gap in spatial reasoning starts in elementary school, meta-analysis finds
Males gain a slight advantage in mental-rotation performance during the first years of formal schooling, and this advantage slowly grows…
‘Nanobodies’ from alpacas could help bring CAR T-cell therapy to solid tumors
Most CAR T-cell therapies look for antigens specific to cancer cells. A new approach instead targets the environment around the…
Scientists capture a ‘snapshot’ of bacterial stress-response regulator’s ‘recycling truck’
Researchers have found that RssB — a protein that specifically recognizes a critical stress-response master regulator in bacteria and delivers…
In mice, eliminating damaged mitochondria alleviates chronic inflammatory disease
Treatment with a choline kinase inhibitor prompts immune cells to clear away damaged mitochondria, thus reducing NLRP3 inflammasome activation and…
New imaging technique reveals ‘burst’ of activity before cell death
Using a novel optical imaging technique, researchers discovered connections between the macromolecular structure and dynamic movement of chromatin within eukaryotic…
Broken mitochondria use ‘eat me’ proteins to summon their executioners
When mitochondria become damaged, they avoid causing further problems by signaling cellular proteins to degrade them. In a new study,…
Longer neutrophil lifespan may contribute to HIV-associated intestinal inflammation
The increased survival of white blood cells called neutrophils is associated with alterations in the intestinal microbiome of HIV-infected individuals,…
Case of tick-borne relapsing fever in Mexico
Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is a recurring fever caused by exposure to infected Borrelia bacteria. Several cases have been reported…