T cell activation—the process by which these key immune defenders recognize threats and mobilize against them—depends on ...
A cluster of recent studies has sharpened the scientific picture of how T cells switch on, tracking the molecular signals ...
Colorectal cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide, largely due to metastasis and ...
Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed CarGAP, a chemo-optogenetic tool that uses vitamin B₁₂ and green light to precisely control gap junctions, the ...
Researchers at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology have found that physically resisting the formation of an immunological synapse actually promotes a stronger immune response. The findings could ...
Until now, conventional 3D cell cultures have often been either too rigid or too unstable to realistically reproduce the ...
T Cells Gain Phagocytic Function via Specific Antigen RecognitionThe research team engineered CD8+ Jurkat T cells to express SVAR16 ...
Our brain’s memory center bears a sleek design. A peek into living tissue from human hippocampi, a brain region crucial for memory and learning, revealed relatively few cell-to-cell connections for ...
Researchers use single-cell analysis to show how transplanted neural stem cells interact with the retina to preserve vision in retinitis pigmentosa.