JEM News

Breakthrough treatment could fight both leukemia and breast cancer

io9 -- Two papers published this week in the Journal of Experimental Medicine examine the protein HSP90, which plays a role in the growth of tumors (more)

Viral immunity: Lose TRAF1, lose control

Nature Reviews Immunology -- Recent research describes a new defect that is associated with CD8⁺ T cell dysfunction in chronic viral infection (more)

Cancer Cell Death by Starvation

dailyRx -- Researchers were able to shrink tumors in mice when they blocked a protein that helps cancer cells grow where oxygen doesn't like to go (more)

Targeting One Protein May Fight Several Cancers

Insidermedicine -- Two reports published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine find a single protein that may be key to fighting several forms of cancer (more)

Crucial immune T cell linked to type 1 diabetes

HealthJockey.com -- Scientists... have discovered a specific immune system T cell that apparently paves the path to type 1 diabetes in the pancreas (more)

Cientistas descobriram a "chave" para o tratamento da osteoporose

Jornal de Angola -- Uma equipa de pesquisadores... descobriu que a proteína IL-20 é a chave para o tratamento da osteoporose (more)

Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research

Information Today -- At the time of this writing, six members of the AAP... have publicly disavowed this bill [H.R. 3699, the Research Works Act] (more)

[JEM publisher] opposes RWA

SPARC Open Access Forum -- I am contacting you... to express my strong opposition to the Research Works Act [and]... to state emphatically that I support the NIH Public Access Policy (more)

Researchers identify pivotal immune cell in Type 1 diabetes

PhysOrg.com -- Researchers have proven the specific immune system T cells which trigger the destruction of type 1 diabetes in the pancreas (more)

Immunology: Dendritic cell demise

Nature Medicine -- Marco Colonna and his colleagues have now found that IFN-I itself induces [plasmacytoid dendritic cell] death (more)