Today's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine relates to research on regulatory T cells https://t.co/rUp92Opbx3
For readers interested in harnessing the biology of regulatory T cells to treat disease, here's a comprehensive review https://t.co/4CVfcN5Y2r
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Online Now: Bile acids activate cancer-associated fibroblasts and induce an immunosuppressive microenvironment in cholangiocarcinoma https://t.co/3HIUf26OKB
Mitochondria are transferred between cells, tissues and organs, particularly in response to stressors
New exciting layer of mitochondrial biology showing the importance of cell-cell interactions and that mitochondria convey information/signal widely
https://t.co/iHWXHVF34o
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A new mechanism for cancer-induced immune evasion. We knew about cancer cells hijacking mitochondria. Now we learn about how their mitochondrial transfer to T cells impairs the tumor immune response.
https://t.co/mxObUMC8R4 @Nature
https://t.co/dkEv5L5Bb0 @NatureNV
Protein chemical modifications (PCMs) and post translational modifications (PTMs) annotation is now included in CCD files, and updated atomic coordinate files are being rolled out.
Details: https://t.co/tRDKSmczVD
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Weekend Digest
Name the Pathogen
Five Clues
1. Free-living amoeba
2. Soil exposure
3. Immunocompetent and compromised hosts
4. Granulomatous encephalitis, disseminated disease and skin lesion
5. Transmission by organ transplantation
A 70-year-old man undergoing cholangioscopy to evaluate dilatation of the common bile duct was found to have flatworms in his biliary tract (shown in a video). Read the full clinical case: https://t.co/OK4X48EOne