A gene long presumed dead comes to life under the full moon of inflammation, Stanford University School of Medicinescientists have found.
The discovery, described in a study published July 23 in eLife, may help explain how anti-inflammatory steroid drugs work. It also could someday lead to entirely new classes of anti-inflammatory treatments without some of steroids’ damaging side effects.
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'Dead' gene seen to come back to life in the midst of inflammation
