Gut microbes found to help mend damaged muscles in mice
A Harvard-led study shows that the gut microbiota acts as the training camp for a class of immune cells that are recruited to heal muscle injury.
Ilima Loomis
• harvard
March 6, 2023 • ~9 min
March 6, 2023 • ~9 min
New tool developed to study ‘undruggable’ proteins
Researchers at Harvard have designed new, highly selective tools that can add or remove sugars from a protein with no off-target effects, to examine exactly what the sugars are doing and engineer them into new treatments for “undruggable” proteins.
Caitlin McDermott-Murphy •
harvard
April 16, 2021 • ~7 min
April 16, 2021 • ~7 min
Anti-inflammatory drug improves survival in COVID-19 patients
Researchers have found that a targeted therapy with tocilizumab reduced mortality by 30 percent for critically ill COVID-19 patients when administered within the first two days of ICU admission.
Haley Bridger •
harvard
Oct. 20, 2020 • ~8 min
Oct. 20, 2020 • ~8 min
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