Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...
Neanderthal blood types may have made them ill-equipped to deal with infectious diseases.
A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have ...
The antigens on a person's red blood cells are recognized as safe by the immune system, but someone with type B blood will have antibodies that attack type A antigens, for example. Another ...
Researchers at the University of Adelaide's Robinson Research Institute have uncovered a new critical role for the immune ...
Medical emergencies strike without warning. Whether it's a car accident, severe allergic reaction, or unexpected surgery, ...
A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing certain receptors from their surfaces and blocking cancer gene activity, ...
Successful test in breast cancer patients: the active agent digoxin, a cardiac medication, dissolves clusters of circulating breast cancer cells in the blood, thus reducing the risk of metastases ...
While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade ...
Diabetes affects an estimated 415 million people worldwide, with type 2 diabetes (T2D) accounting for about 90% of these ...