Chinese medicine extract tetrandrine's precise mechanism of action opens new avenues for drug discovery

A research team led by Prof. Ben Ko Chi-bun, Associate Professor of the PolyU Department of Applied Biology and Chemical ...
Healio

Nasal mRNA therapy increases anti-viral cytokine in healthy people, candidate in asthma

Interferon lambda concentrations in nasal lining fluid fell in or above the predicted therapeutic range with a nasally ...
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A schematic diagram illustrates a proposed mechanism of interferon-γ (IFN-γ)-induced downregulation of tricellulin in salivary epithelial cells. (IMAGE)

A schematic diagram illustrates a proposed mechanism of interferon-γ (IFN-γ)-induced downregulation of tricellulin in salivary epithelial cells. IFN-γ leads to the phosphorylation of signal transducer ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Reactivation of SOX17 Program as Immune-Evasion Mechanism in Early Colorectal Cancer Development

Goto et al. 1 recently described a novel mechanism of immune evasion during the initial steps in the development of colorectal cancer in which nascent cancer cells reactivate a fetal program that is ...
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Discovery of key RSV immune evasion mechanism offers hope for new treatments

Irish scientists led by a group from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how the dangerous Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) defuses our immune response and, in doing so, they have pinpointed an ...