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Cell Reports

Peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cell Press covering original research across cell biology, immunology, neuroscience, and related life sciences.

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In people past 110, one rare T cell keeps growing instead of fading

Osaka researchers found CD4 cytotoxic T lymphocytes rise from 4 percent to 17.6 percent of circulating T cells across the oldest age brackets. Outside immunologists want function, not just counts.

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Hype gap+35
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Confidence60
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Cells keep a record of the stiffness they came from, and NUS names the switch: NFATC2

A team at the National University of Singapore primed cells on soft or stiff gels, then made them squeeze through microchannels. The soft-primed ones were over 60% faster days later.

Publishers:phys.org

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Evidence58
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Hype gap+14
Incentives62
Confidence48
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Yeast fibre in the chow, not the needle: obesity's immune damage looks reversible in mice

A Trinity College Dublin and UCD team says dietary yeast beta-glucan retrained bone marrow progenitors in obese mice, restoring anti-tumour immunity that weight loss alone did not.

Publishers:sciencedaily.com

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Evidence42
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Hype gap+38
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Confidence40
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A bitten cowpea leaves instructions in the soil, and the next plant calls the wasps

Researchers report in Cell Reports that leafminer damage recruits root bacteria, which make later cowpeas emit a wasp attractant. How long the soil holds it is unmeasured.

Publishers:sciencenews.org

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Evidence44
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Hype gap+32
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Confidence48
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Myelin repair cells make their own stress hormone, and it seems to set the clock

Max Planck researchers report that oligodendrocyte precursors release CRH near brain injury for about three days. Remove its receptor and you get more precursors but fewer mature cells.

Publishers:sciencedaily.com

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption
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Hype gap+24
Incentives62
Confidence38