Electrically Stimulating the Brain May Restore Movement After Stroke
Diabetes Added to High Risks for People With Severe Mental Illness
Deep Space Radiation Treatment Reboots Brain’s Immune System
Planning a trip to Mars? You’ll want to remember your anti-radiation pills. NASA and private space companies like SpaceX plan to send humans to the red planet within the next 15 years–but among the major challenges facing future crewed space missions is how to protect astronauts from the dangerous cosmic radiation of deep space. Now…
Successful Immunotherapy Requires System-Wide Immune Response
Programmable T Cells Chase Down Cancer, Deliver Drugs Directly to Tumors
UC San Francisco scientists have engineered human immune cells that can precisely locate diseased cells anywhere in the body and execute a wide range of customizable responses, including the delivery of drugs or other therapeutic payloads directly to tumors or other unhealthy tissues. In experiments with mice, these immune cells, called synNotch T cells, efficiently…