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Cellular Metabolism news

In a fascinating paper just out in Cell Metabolism, Mathias Wenes and coworkers found that the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC) regulates memory T cell differentiation and

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CHIR-99021 for Organoid models

CHIR-99021 is another popular tool for stem cell maintenance which increases cell survival and proliferation. It is a GSK3β inhibitor, and Komiya et al. used CHIR-99021

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Y-27632 for Stem Cell maintenance

The compound Y-27632 inhibits ROCK family kinases and is a very popular tool for embryonic stem cell (ESC) maintenance because it enhances survival and proliferation in

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Ferroptosis

Ferroptosis is a type of cell death caused by iron-dependent peroxidation of phospholipids and is important for proper function of tumor suppression, immune surveillance, and the

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New target for Cancer Immunotherapy

Disrupting N-glycan expression on tumor cells enhanced CAR T cell efficacy. Greco et al. treated mice with 2-deoxy-D-glucose (Focus Cat.# 10-2171), a glucose analog, disrupting N-glycan

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PARP inhibitor approved by FDA

The FDA has approved the use of olaparib (Focus Cat.# 10-2154) as adjuvant treatment for patients with BRCA-mutated HER-2 negative high-risk early breast cancer that were

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