Zhao concluded that adolescent brains are not homogeneous. Rather, they are affected by factors like specific life events and ...

A gene variant identified in a family and studied in a fruit fly model may offer protection against a rare X-linked seizure ...

A s fungal pathogens sink their feeding apparatuses into host cells, plants can fight back by shooting out vesicles packed with defensive molecules. When identifying vesicles thought to be exosomes, ...

To assess whether NK cells were involved in antitumor response generated by fasting, Delconte and her team depleted these ...

The body’s defense system against infection also fights tumors, generating tumor resident stem-like T cells and killer T cells that express inhibitory receptors such as PD-1. When PD-1 binds to PD-L1 ...

Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular ...

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Scientists engineered T cells to protect instead of kill, potentially enabling targeted treatments for autoimmune disease and ...

Sequencing bacterial genomes allows scientists to study bacterial diversity, immunity, and the human microbiome, but it ...

From foundational technologies to cutting-edge microfluidics, scientists use the latest wastewater surveillance techniques to ...

A CRISPR-based system that erases itself from fly populations may offer a safer approach to tackling insecticide resistance ...

Profiling cells from ovarian endometriosis revealed signaling interactions that may sustain lesion growth, highlighting ...