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Scientists from UT Southwestern have discovered the big bang of tau pathology and Alzheimer’s disease, that long sought after precise point at when a healthy protein becomes toxic but has not yet formed deadly tangles within the brain, as published in eLife. New light has been shed onto the shape shifting nature of tau molecules …
Extracellular vesicles have emerged as important mediators of intercellular communication, and have gained interest for therapeutic potential as treatment itself and as biomarker of several pathologies. Research covers a wide range of aspects from basics to manipulation for therapeutic purposes and immunomodulatory to regenerative potential. Exosomes are extracellular vesicles released from cells upon fusion of an …
A research team from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) published a study in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, verifying that chemotherapy that kills cancer cells also triggers an inflammatory response that actually promotes aggressive tumor growth. Dipak Panigrahy, MD, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor at BIDMC’s Department of Pathology states that …