Inactivation of KAP1 by mTOR-mediated phosphorylation releases human cytomegalovirus from latency, and has the potential to be used as a therapy to purge the virus from transplant organs.
Jean M Mulcahy Levy, Shadi Zahedi ... Andrew Thorburn
Pre-clinical and patient data show that inhibition of autophagy with an approved, inexpensive, well-tolerated drug can overcome resistance to BRAFV600E inhibition in multiple brain tumor subtypes with different resistance mechanisms.
Scratch-AID, a deep learning-based system for automatic quantification of mouse scratching behavior, could replace labor-intensive manual quantification and facilitate high through-put anti-itch drug screening.
Vijay K Samineni, Jose G Grajales-Reyes ... Robert W Gereau
Circuit and transcriptional analysis shows that genetically defined central amygdala neurons and their projections to the ventral periaqueductal gray mediate behavioral and affective responses to pruritus.
A novel bioengineered human skeletal muscle model with accurate physiological and pharmacological responses may provide a useful tool for preclinical testing.
Arnab Barik, Anupama Sathyamurthy ... Alexander Chesler
A circuit involving Tacr1-expressing neurons in the spinal cord and the parabrachial nucleus controls how mice respond to a wide range of persistently painful stimuli.
Wiebke Nahrendorf, Philip J Spence ... Jean Langhorne
A novel mouse model of immunization against Plasmodium chabaudi involving infectious mosquito bites and drug-treatment elicits protection against blood-stage malaria parasites, and shows that protection is not necessarily life cycle stage-specific.