Type of injury matters, when healing the small intestine
New insights into how the small intestine, one of the fastest renewing tissues in the human body, repairs itself are
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From The Labs
Fighting back lymphoma resistance to treatment
T cell therapies have demonstrated encouraging results and benefits in patients with lymphoma resistant to chemotherapy, but, despite these advances,
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Identical twins share more than identical genes
For decades, researchers have studied genetically identical twins to estimate what proportion of disease risk is determined by one’s genes.
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Searching for targets for ependymoma chemotherapy
From a clinical perspective, the treatment for ependymoma – the third most common childhood brain tumor – has changed little
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Aminode lets you do in less than a second what used to take a week
On his first year at Rice University, Kevin Chang, now a senior cognitive sciences major and ecology and evolutionary biology minor,
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Image of the Month: Repairing rotavirus-damaged intestinal cells
When rotavirus infects and damages intestinal cells, the small intestine fails to absorb nutrients and diarrhea develops. Rotaviruses and noroviruses
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Bacteria can have a ‘sweet tooth,’ too
Clostridium difficile infections have always been a problem in hospitals, but during the last 15 years they have become the
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Uncovering the secrets of the sooty mangabey’s resistance to SIV
Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection in macaques behaves in a similar way as infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in
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How disrupting mitochondria genes can lead to neurodegeneration
Years back, the Bellen lab identified many mutations in genes of the mitochondria, the energy generators of the cell. Among
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G-quadruplex helps breast cancer survive
For breast cancer, expressing the protein CD44s, instead of CD44v, has a survival advantage. And one of the goals of
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