Salk Assistant Professor Deepshika Ramanan has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The award will help fund her research on how maternal immune cells support lactation and shape long-term health outcomes for both mother and child.

Gastric cancer (GC), once primarily seen in older adults, is on the rise among younger individuals in developed countries. In a recent review, researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong analyzed how diet, gastric microbes, and their metabolites influence the risk of GC, highlighting harmful and protective microbial species and dietary patterns. This study serves as a roadmap for GC research and points toward personalized dietary and microbiome-based strategies for GC prevention.

In a review published in Molecular Biomedicine, the authors summarized the impact of exosomes on the progression of diseases through their carried cargo, affecting the microenvironment in inflammatory diseases and cancer. Moreover, exosomes have great potential as diagnostic biomarkers, therapeutic drugs, and drug delivery carriers in inflammatory diseases and cancer.