Cells navigating in complex microenvironments frequently encounter narrow spaces that physically challenge migration.

how toxic proteins emerge from an immune cell to kill a diseased cell – revealing crucial new detail. But the other way to use a super-resolution microscope is more akin to the way Hooke used a ...

Stationed within the meninges, squads of immune cells lie in wait, ready to unleash an inflammatory assault within the brain if needed. Holding these trigger-happy troops back during peacetime falls ...

Researchers discovered the importance of an enzyme that promotes growth of certain lung cancers. Lung cancer is a ...

CD4+ T cells orchestrate the response to acute and chronic viral infections by coordinating the immune system. These cells activate multiple cells of the innate immune system, as well as B cells, ...

Battling a chronic disease is like running a marathon where T cells, the immune system’s frontline defenders, are the runners. When the starter’s pistol fires, the runners are fast and strong.

Representative immunofluorescence images showing normal ... Macrophages (pink cells) are more prominent in cancer, and reprogrammed immune cells that facilitate immune evasion and tumor invasion ...

Cell death is a process by which a cell's vital capacity is terminated. During an immune response, cells of the immune system cause the death of cells that are infected with microorganisms or are ...

Dr. Eric Levine’s cutting-edge autism research at UConn is reprogramming the donated skin or blood cells of Angelman or Dup15q syndrome patients to develop them in the lab into brain cells that ...

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