A new class of molecules capable of killing the cancer cells that are refractory to standard treatments and responsible for recurrence has just been developed. This crucial advance in the fight ...

Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) and the Medical Center—University of Freiburg has ...

Current anticancer treatments essentially target the primary tumour cells that proliferate quickly, but do not effectively ...

Bioengineers at Queen Mary University of London have taken a significant step forward in the development of laboratory-based ...

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

Experiments in fruit fly larvae show that epidermal cells can communicate with sensory neurons to drive responses to pain.

When Treg cells are produced, they are trained to recognize specific peptides, including self-peptides from the body. When dendritic cells present a self-peptide, the peacekeeper Treg cells trained to ...

This fundamental study explores a novel cellular mechanism underlying the degeneration of locus coeruleus neurons during chronic restraint stress. The evidence supporting the overexpression of LC ...

It's not just snakes that shed. Animals like caterpillars, birds, and frogs do, too. Here's a list of 10 animals that shed.

Our perspective about glucose toxicity as it pertains to the pancreatic ß-cell is that the characteristic ... treatment with antioxidants in vivo in animals, protect the islet from the toxic ...