Brazilian researchers innovated by stimulating tumor cells so much that they became stressed and could survive only by behaving like healthy cells. The researchers plan to hold clinical trials with patients, to be conducted in the Netherlands before the end of 2024.

In an article published in Nature Medicine, a group at OCRC stresses that Yanomami children are suffering the most severe nutritional deficit of any Indigenous community in the Americas and warns of long-term consequences for health.

OCRC researchers found that high levels of saturated fatty acids in obese non-diabetics blood samples cause pre-activation of innate immune cells that, when infected with SARS-CoV-2, produce elevated levels of inflammatory molecules. Results were presented during FAPESP Week China.