Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move ...

Immunotherapy has transformed healthcare and how physicians treat patients. Various forms of immunotherapy have been ...

Scientists have discovered that T cell receptors activate through a hidden spring-like motion that had never been seen before ...

Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered a healing mechanism that could one day be harnessed to help treat patients with ...

Three recently published studies by Medical University of South Carolina researchers each adopted a unique approach to ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sea of blank cells in Excel, wondering how to fill them without hours of manual effort? For years, this has been a frustrating bottleneck for professionals ...

The immune cell repertoire is composed of many different cell types that are orchestrated in response to infection and other pathogens that enter the body. As a result, the body can defend itself ...

The federal government is looking for researchers who can, in 5 years, develop stem cell treatments to repair brain damage caused by stroke, neurodegeneration, and trauma. The Functional Repair of ...

While humans can regularly replace certain cells, like those in our blood and gut, we cannot naturally regrow most other parts of the body. For example, when the tiny sensory hair cells in our inner ...

Cancer cells steal energy-generating parts from nerve cells to fuel their spread to distant sites, a discovery that could improve treatments against the deadliest tumours. “This is the first time that ...

Immunoregulation Unit, Department of Immunology, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are innate-like T cells that express a ...