The research, done in mice and in human cells, shows that a protein called STUB1 restrains the immune system’s elite ...

A few limited clinical trials of lithium for Alzheimer’s disease have shown some efficacy, but the lithium compounds they ...

Nearly 200 new medical and dental students donned white coats and celebrated the start of their educational journeys at ...

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Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FTOS is an obesity medicine physician scientist, educator, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a ...

Many people with autism spectrum disorders also experience unusual gastrointestinal inflammation, but thus far scientists have not established whether and how those conditions might be linked. Now, ...

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After a protein attaches to the proteasome, it may tumble between different configurations. The proteasome, in turn, constantly switches its conformation accordingly. These changes create a ...

At a glance: In a marked advance over current AI models, the new approach captures how proteins act not in isolation but in their cellular and tissue environments. The model illuminates how ...

Dr. Caballero is an Endocrinologist, Clinical Investigator and Educator. He is the Faculty Director of International Innovation Programs and Faculty Director of Diabetes Education in the Office for ...

Mass General primary care physician and inaugural writer-in-residence Suzanne Koven. Video: Elizabeth CooneyWhen primary care physician Suzanne Koven sees a patient with a sore throat, she begins by ...

The female genital tract is naturally colonized by mixed communities of bacteria, known as the vaginal microbiome. When these communities are dominated by species such as Lactobacillus crispatus, the ...