Researchers from Rutgers and other institutions have uncovered significant variations in how inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects people of different races, sexes and places of birth. The study, published in Gastro Hep Advances, may assist caregivers and help shed...
Please read Dr. Yang’s article in Allergy titled, “Adventitial stromal cells and myofibroblasts recruit pro- and anti-inflammatory immune cells in allergic airway inflammation.” Allergic asthma is characterized by airway inflammation and bronchial...
A multidisciplinary study published in Nature has elucidated the structure of the machinery responsible for writing much of our “dark genome” — the 98 percent of our DNA that has a largely unknown biological function. These findings — which are illustrated in...
Please read Dr. Ghaddar’s article in Bioinformatics titled, “Hierarchical and automated cell-type annotation and inference of cancer cell of origin with Census.” Single cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) has enabled annotation and transcriptional...
Modern medicine comes at a significant cost to the environment: The energy-intensive industry generates greenhouse gases that drive climate change and unrecyclable waste that packs landfills. Efforts to reduce the environmental impact are gaining momentum in the...
