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 ...

There are more than 100,000 chemicals in consumer products. For the vast majority, there is very little information about their toxicity. Traditionally, researchers will test chemicals of interest in ...

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

Laura is an assistant editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD in biomedical sciences from Rush University by studying how circadian rhythms and alcohol affect the gut.

Scientists have engineered swine that pollute less, fend off disease, and produce more meat, but you won’t find them outside experimental farms . . . yet. Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director ...

Danielle is an Assistant Editor at The Scientist. She has a background in neuroscience and molecular psychiatry. She has previously written for BioTechniques News, The Scientist, and Drug Discovery ...

The normal functions of peptides that aggregate in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s have been largely overlooked by scientists, but some argue that they are critical for understanding the ...

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