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As summarized by UVA Medicine In Motion:<\/a><\/p>\n

Backed by a new five-year $3.3 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Ilya Levental, PhD, a professor in the Center for Membrane & Cell Physiology, and his collaborators aim to uncover the fundamental mechanisms by which T cells decide when to activate an immune response against infection or cancer.<\/p>\n

The last decade has seen the discovery of a previously unknown type of organization in almost all living cells. It has been known for more than a century that lipid membranes create cellular compartments called organelles that subdivide and organize the inside of cells. In parallel, it appears that proteins, RNA and other biomolecules can organize themselves into droplet-like compartments called \u201ccondensates.\u201d The Levental team, in collaboration with colleagues at UT Southwestern in Texas and Sick Kids Hospital at the University of Toronto, recently discovered that such condensates cooperate with lipid membranes to help the immune system decide when to attack cells that may have been infected by viruses or developed a cancer-causing mutation. Read more about this work published in the journal Science Advances<\/a>. Congratulations to the Leventals and their lab!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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