Herpes Virus Is One of the Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease!

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most common forms of dementia. More than 30 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. Unfortunately, there is currently no cure for the disease, only drugs that relieve the symptoms of the patient; in a recently published dissertation, the author (Professor Ruth Itzhaki of the University of Manchester) proposed a new method for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers pointed out that some…

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Progress in HIV Research in October 2018 (II)

(…Continued)   JCI: Infectious HIV is not present in liver macrophages of HIV-infected patients receiving treatment doi:10.1172/JCI121678   In a new study, researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Los Alamos National Laboratory determined whether liver macrophages are infectious HIV-1 virus pools after ART treatment. The real source of the liver tissue samples from nine HIV-1 infected individuals (7 of them were transplanted at Johns Hopkins Hospital). Eight of these nine…

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Progress in HIV Research in October 2018 (I)

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), an AIDS (AIDS, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) virus, is a virus that causes defects in the human immune system. In 1983, HIV was first discovered in the United States. It is a lentivirus that infects cells of the human immune system and is a type of retrovirus. By destroying the body’s T lymphocytes, HIV blocks cellular and humoral immune processes, causing the immune system to deficiency, and…

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BCR: Targeting Collagen XIII Protein Is Expected to Successfully Treat Breast Cancer Metastasis

Recently, researchers from the University of Kentucky found that targeting a protein called collagen XIII  may effectively inhibit the metastasis of breast cancer. And the article related was published on Breast Cancer Research.   Breast cancer begins in epithelial cells, cells that are arranged in organs and tissues of the body. In general, most of the epithelial cells die when detached from the extracellular matrix. This type of programmed cell…

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Cancer Res: Cancer Stem Cells May Use Normal Genes to “Do Evil”

CDK1 is a normal protein that drives cells through the replication cycle, while MHC class 1 molecule is also a normal molecule that exhibits a small amount of protein on the cell surface for examination by the immune system; Recently, scientists from the University of Colorado Cancer Center found that a group of cancer cells labeled with MHC class 1 molecule and high levels of CDK1 are extremely unusual. In…

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