Unlocking MS: How an EBV Protein Releases the Immune Brakes
For decades, the link between Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and multiple sclerosis (MS) has been one of the strongest, yet most perplexing, epidemiological clues in neurology. Nearly everyone is infected ...
Meet Mitoxyperiosis: Cell's Newly Defined Mitochondrial Death Program
Cell death is a core physiological process in life activities, and its abnormal regulation is closely related to various diseases such as inflammation, tumors, and neurodegenerative diseases. ...
How 'Star Molecule' CCN1 Orchestrates Astrocyte Functions Across Regions
On December 17, 2025, the team of Joshua E. Burda at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, USA, published a research paper in Nature titled "Lesion-remote astrocytes govern ...
A Drop of Blood, An Early Warning: New Hope for Predicting Alzheimer's in the Aging Population
With the accelerating global aging process, Alzheimer's disease and related cognitive disorders have become a major challenge to human health. According to statistics, there are over 55 million ...
Ending the Arrhythmia Risk: Science Breakthrough Merges Peptide Scaffold with Nanoelectronics for Stable Heart Repair
Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs), cultured from a patient's own stem cells, represent a revolutionary approach to repairing hearts damaged by myocardial ...
Triggering Cuprotosis to Fight Leukemia
It is well known that multicellular organisms undergo various predetermined and precisely controlled programmed cell death during development, such as apoptosis, necroptosis, pyroptosis, and ...
Science's Tiny Drug Delivery Robots
When you take a pill, only a minimal amount of the drug ultimately reaches the diseased site, while the majority distributes throughout the body. This systemic administration often leads to ...
Revolutionary Microglial Replacement Therapy: A New Hope for Deadly Brain Diseases!
After systemic hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell transplantation (HCT), transplanted allogeneic myeloid cells migrate to the brain, holding great promise as a therapeutic modality to correct brain ...
Could Stem Cells Help Patients with the Novel Coronavirus Disease?
Since December 2019, 2019-nCoV infection has become an urgent public health event worldwide. There are currently no vaccines or specific antiviral treatments for 2019-nCoV infection. Although ...
New Mechanism for Multidrug Resistance in Cancer Cells
Cancer drug resistance is usually controlled through chemotherapy and targeted therapy. Unlike chemotherapy that inhibits cell proliferation, targeted therapy blocks a single, consistent pathway of ...