Two years after this, Sakaguchi was able to link these discoveries. He proved that the Foxp3 gene governs the development of ...

Erythropoietin, the protein that drives red blood cell formation, also induces tolerance in dendritic cells, leading to the ...

Why do certain immune cells remain permanently active in allergic asthma—even in an environment that should actually damage ...

The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that ...

A large study shows that routine H&E pathology slides contain rich spatial proteomic signals that can be decoded by AI to ...

New research published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity provides evidence that alcohol use disorder triggers a distinct type ...

The Hepatitis B virus is a leading cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality, particularly through chronic hepatitis B (CHB), which can progress to cirrhosis and liver cancer. While most adults ...

Stress affects many systems in our body and biologists Marcel Schaaf and Erin Faught at Radboud University are figuring out ...

Background Interstitial fibrosis in lupus nephritis (LN) is often infiltrated by immune cells but typically regarded as non-specific ‘scar reaction’. This study aimed to investigate the relationship ...

Engineered bacteria reprogram tumor macrophages and direct copper into cancer cells, triggering cell death and systemic immunity without damaging healthy tissue. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Tumors do not ...