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2 stories tagged "mouse-study"
Brain & Aging
A Stanford Lab Deleted One Immune Receptor and Its Old Mice Barely Aged
Stanford says it found one big reason we age. The proof is a genetically engineered mouse, no such drug exists for people, and the senior author already holds patents on inhibiting the receptor she wants blocked.
Infectious DiseaseThe textbook said B cells take turns. A new temporal map of a malaria infection says they don't.
A new Nature Immunology temporal map of B cell responses to malaria in mice catches class-switching, clonal expansion, and somatic hypermutation overlapping from the first week, scrambling the tidy stepwise story textbooks still teach.