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(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.

(Brown University) The study of eipigenetic variability in cells and tissues could someday help diagnose diseases more precisely and provide more targeted treatments for chronic ailments.

Details, summarized by Brown University researchers and others, are published online in the latest edition of PLoS Genetics.

(Brown University) Researchers from Brown University, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, and the University of Edinburgh say Brazil's push for inexpensive, low-cost HIV and AIDS treatments has helped contain thevirus during the last 20 years.

Details will be published in the July/Augustissue of Health Affairs.