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

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic disease that affects an increasing number of children and adults. The skin is dry and ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

Tuberculosis bacteria survive by hiding in our immune cells. In her PhD research, biologist Salomé Muñoz Sánchez explores how ...

Cancer cells that have broken away from a primary tumor can lurk in the body for years in a dormant state, evading immune defenders and biding their time until conditions are ripe for establishing a ...

New Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center research reveals how dormant metastatic cancer cells protect themselves from the immune system by changing their shape.

Chemotherapy reshapes gut bacteria in ways that send powerful signals throughout the body. These signals reprogram immune ...

A multidisciplinary team from Harvard Medical School, Duke University, and Massachusetts General Hospital has developed the dual-scale Capillary-Cell (CapCell) microscope, a revolutionary tool for ...

Study findings map out a new way in which antiviral signals engage with cellular metabolism to balance defense and repair.

Discover how a miniature model of the human liver can help improve toxicology testing for food contaminants, reducing the ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely ...