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(Brown University) Researchers led by Brown University has completed the first modeling, followed by experiments, of how red blood cells are infected by a malarial parasite that attacks the brain.

The researchers report that infected cells stiffen by as much as 50 times more than healthy cells. Infected cells also tend to stick along blood vessel walls, impeding the flow of blood to critical organs.

Results appear in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

(Brown University) Researchers from Brown University and the University of California have shown that the epigenetic profiles of breast tumors are related to patient diet and alcohol use as well as tumor size.

(Brown University) Researchers from Brown University and McGill University have discovered that the natural killer, or NK cells, help prevent T cells from over-responding when a virus hits.

This balance helps prevent T cells, which ordinarily serve the immune system, from causing harm. Details are in the September issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine.