Crispr has already secured a historic first approval for a CRISPR/Cas9 drug and has several more potential blockbuster ...

Instead of sending tourists to space, scientists have found a more practical use for the final frontier: growing better ...

Penn Ovarian Cancer Research Center and Basser Center for BRCA, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States ...

Our cells need to be able to recognize potential invaders as a threat, the key function of the body's innate immune system.

Immune cells are capable of detecting infections just like a sniffer dog, using special sensors known as Toll-like receptors, ...

A small trial used designer CAR T cells to reboot the immune systems of patients with three autoimmune diseases, but it's still too early to say whether the treatment works in the long term.

The most comprehensive map of the developing human thymus sheds light on how immune responses are ... attacking the body's own healthy cells. The thymus, a small organ behind the breastbone ...

Researchers have analyzed the entire mouse intestine, mapping gene expression and cell states and location in the healthy gut and in response to perturbations such as inflammation. They identified ...

A comprehensive multi-omics reference atlas of prenatal human skin shows that innate immune cells crosstalk with non-immune cells to perform pivotal roles in skin morphogenesis, including the ...

By creating the first spatial atlas of the developing human thymus, a vital organ that trains immune cells to protect against ...

While capable of driving a powerful anti-tumour response, these cells often remain inactive, limiting the immune system's response to the tumour. Led by Haydn T. Kissick, PhD, a researcher in the ...