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Mohammad Arifuzzaman and David Artis/Provided Color-enhanced goblet cells (dark purple) in lung epithelium.

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Common dietary fiber promotes allergy-like immune responses

by : Jim Schnabel , Cornell Chronicle

Inulin, a type of dietary fiber commonly used in health supplements and known to have certain anti-inflammatory properties, can also promote an allergy-related type of inflammation in the lung and gut, and other parts of the body, according to a preclinical study from researchers in the Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation and Jill Roberts Institute for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at…

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Lymphoma cell metabolism may provide new cancer target

by : Jim Schnabel , Cornell Chronicle

Aggressive and relatively common lymphomas called diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) have a critical metabolic vulnerability that can be exploited to trick these cancers into starving themselves, according to a study from Cornell researchers. The researchers, whose study published Dec. 13 in Blood Cancer Discovery, showed that the protein ATF4, a genetic master-switch that controls…