Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for ...

Targeting and disabling a certain protein essential to transporting glucose properly through cells (Glucose Transporter 1, or ...

Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer care by training the immune system to detect and destroy tumors. For many patients, ...

Japanese researcher Shimon Sakaguchi, one of the three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has voiced hope to develop effective cancer immunotherapy using regulatory T cells ...

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

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. Even when immune memory cells form in the lung after influenza infection, insufficient dietary ...

Immune cells in the gut follow an atypical pathway to produce antibodies that provide long-term protection against viruses, ...

We generally consider cancer a disease of aging, as the rates of almost all types of cancer increase with age.

Programmable CRISPR tools are turning stem cell biology into something closer to software engineering, shrinking ...

Study will determine whether the immune system of piglets in late gestation is capable of mounting adaptive immune responses.

University of California San Diego alumnus Fred Ramsdell will be presented the Nobel Prize by the King of Sweden on Dec. 10 in Stockholm, Sweden. But getting the news about the life-changing award ...

Immune cells in the gut follow an atypical pathway to produce antibodies that provide long-term protection against viruses, according to a new study ...