Team of Professor Mao-Sheng Yao from Peking University: Equipping Cells with "Surveillance" to Warn of Early-Stage Hazards

Although the human body possesses various abilities to perceive environmental pollutants, it often fails to promptly capture the stimulus signals after exposure or cannot form perceptual information until symptoms appear. For example, the human body has the endotoxin receptor TLR4. Inhalation exposure can silently trigger a series of biological reactions, producing inflammatory biomarkers, ultimately ...