
Innate Immune Activation Behind Asthma Attacks from Common Cold
Most asthma attacks in children are caused by viruses like the common cold. Michigan researchers get closer to explaining why.
Michigan Medicine is renowned for groundbreaking clinical, basic science and medical educational research, with nearly 7,000 papers published annually by faculty and trainees. Here, Lab Notes highlights a selection of those articles in addition to ones covered as stories on the Michigan Health Lab blog.
Most asthma attacks in children are caused by viruses like the common cold. Michigan researchers get closer to explaining why.
Findings point to new clinical tool to assess--and perhaps treat—patients.
Surge in robotic surgery in 2010s outpaces the evidence for its effects on patients and costs, researchers warn.
New basic science and clinical research identifies TAU, the same protein studied in the development of Alzheimer’s, as a biomarker for glioma development.
Research suggests the possibility of a more general phenomenon, applicable to the growth of other primary cell types.
In mouse models, the work uncovers a new potential target to improve immunotherapy approaches to the deadly disease.