A blood test reveals ‘neighborhoods’ of cells in tumors, predicts immunotherapy responses
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Biodiversity loss is directly threatening human health and welfare, according to new research led by the University of Bristol. The study, published in Nature today [6 May] reveals, for the first time, how the decline of insect pollinators undermines essential ecosystem services that support human nutrition and livelihoods. Biodiversity also plays a vital role in supporting people’s everyday health and resilience, too.
Published in Trends in Molecular Medicine, the study shows that myelin not only facilitates the transmission of signals, but also plays an active role in brain plasticity, in other words, the brain’s ability to adapt. In this process the GPCR receptors, activated by neurotransmitters, act as key regulators of this plasticity in the adult brain. Understanding how myelin, which plays a part in numerous neurological disorders, is regulated opens up new therapeutic opportunities.