An international research team has discovered a previously unknown mechanism that plays a key role in the signaling pathways ...

As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once "blank slate" cells begin to take on more specialized ...

Immunotherapy, which uses a patient's immune system to treat disease, has increased survival for some adults and children ...

Once a receptor protein receives a signal, it undergoes a conformational change, which in turn launches a series of ...

Our understanding of how cells interact with each other has been driven for decades by the central concept of ...

Natural killer cells have long been viewed as the immune system’s blunt but dependable first responders, capable of destroying tumor cells without the elaborate priming that T cells require. In r ...

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the most common subtype of kidney cancer, is increasingly understood as a malignancy ...

Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease is one of the most perplexing conditions in paediatric orthopaedics. It strikes children by ...

Before the parasite Toxoplasma gondii can invade a cell, it has to know it has reached the right place. New research from the ...