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How hepatitis C virus evades the immune system
Researchers from Osaka University unpicked how hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) evade the immune system to cause chronic infection. By ...
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2021
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How tissues harm themselves during wound healing
Researchers from Osaka University discovered that increased expression of Rbm7 in apoptotic tissue cells results in the recruitment of ...
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2020
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Identification of autophagy-dependent secretion machinery
A group of researchers identified a molecular machinery by which autophagy mediates secretion. These results underscore an important role of autophagy other ...
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2016
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Igniting the Rheumatoid Arthritis Flame Through A Cellular Cascade
Osaka University-led international researchers identified a network of cells responsible for secretion of a key inflammatory cytokine in development of ...
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2018
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Immune diseases inflict identical twins differently
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2017
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Keep quiet or be eliminated: how cell competition modulates morphogen gradients
Tissue patterning is an important process during embryo formation, which ensures that groups of cells are arranged in an appropriate manner that allows them to ...
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2019
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Keeping Chromosomes in Check: A New Role for Heterochromatin
Large changes in the structure of chromosomes are usually fatal for the cell or can lead to genetic diseases such as cancer. Many large chromosomal ...
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2019
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Key Protein Providing Defense Against “Jumping Genes” Identified
International researchers revealed the crucial function of the protein HP1a for piRNA biogenesis, which is important for transposon silencing. Transposons are ...
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2018
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Key to beating colorectal cancer hiding in plain sight?
Colorectal cancer, one of the most common cancers in the developed world, is intrinsically resistant to many drug therapies. In an attempt to identify novel ...
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2020
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Large-scale Study Reveals Genetic Risk of Diabetes in the Japanese Population
Researchers at Osaka University, The University of Tokyo, RIKEN, and others performed a meta-analysis using data on over 36,000 Japanese sufferers of type 2 ...
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2019