Damage from a heart attack comes from brain signals, mouse study suggests
Heart damage caused by a myocardial infarction is exacerbated by activation of a heart–brain–immune axis.Credit: Sevolod Zviryk/Science Photo…
Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s — this protein helps explain why
Amyloid plaques (light pink; artist’s illustration) speckle neurons in a brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease.Credit: Artur Plawgo/Science Photo…
Why is flu so bad this year? Highly mutated variant offers answers
A person is vaccinated against influenza, which is causing high numbers of illnesses and hospitalizations in the United…
Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria
Mitochondria produce energy for the cell, but have a number of other important roles.Credit: Professors P. Motta &…
why some people die from typically harmless germs
Michael Levin had just started working as a paediatric infectious-disease doctor in London when he received an urgent…
Neuro-epithelial circuits promote sensory convergence and intestinal immunity
Gieseck, R. L. 3rd, Wilson, M. S. & Wynn, T. A. Type 2 immunity in tissue repair and…
Some of your cells are not genetically yours — what can they tell us about life and death?
Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism is Redefining Human Identity Lise Barnéoud, transl.…
mRNA therapy turns back the clock
As people age, immune cells called T cells tend to decline both in quantity and in quality. Credit:…
This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish
Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat…
Nevada Health Centers and Javara seeking participants for clinical trial | Local News
Nevada Health Centers, a federal Qualified Community Health Center (QCHC), and Javara, a research organization, continue to bring…
Stanford Medicine scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry
Oddly, about 20% of the B cells in our bodies are autoreactive. They target antigens belonging to our…
Epigenetic editing enables safer and more effective T cell therapies
Arc Institute, Gladstone Institutes, and University of California, San Francisco, scientists have developed an epigenetic editing platform that…