Aging immune cells may be sabotaging the body from within. Researchers found that macrophages produce a protein that locks ...

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

The Arctic is changing rapidly, and scientists have uncovered a powerful mix of natural and human-driven processes fueling that change. Cracks in sea ice release heat and pollutants that form clouds ...

Skeletal muscle stem cells in hibernating Syrian hamsters preserve their ability to function by suppressing their activation ...

New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

Cancer immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer cells. The treatment ...

In a TNBC animal model with limited responsiveness to chemotherapy, Telomir-1 demonstrated statistically significant activity on both tumor growth and cancer cell spread. MIAMI, FLORIDA / ACCESS ...

Metabolism, far from being just a housekeeping function, underlies all changes in cell size and function ...