NIH’s plan to reduce indirect funds faced immense backlash from researchers. A federal judge ruled to extend the halt to cuts ...

Burns initially reached out to Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist and chief executive officer of the Pandefense Advisory, ...

In this webinar, Kevin J. Tracey and Lawrence Steinman will discuss how researchers study the immunology of the brain and its ...

Zhao concluded that adolescent brains are not homogeneous. Rather, they are affected by factors like specific life events and ...

A gene variant identified in a family and studied in a fruit fly model may offer protection against a rare X-linked seizure ...

A s fungal pathogens sink their feeding apparatuses into host cells, plants can fight back by shooting out vesicles packed with defensive molecules. When identifying vesicles thought to be exosomes, ...

An NIH policy to reduce funding for indirect costs to 15 percent, although temporarily blocked nationwide, sparks widespread ...

To assess whether NK cells were involved in antitumor response generated by fasting, Delconte and her team depleted these ...

The body’s defense system against infection also fights tumors, generating tumor resident stem-like T cells and killer T cells that express inhibitory receptors such as PD-1. When PD-1 binds to PD-L1 ...

Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular ...

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Scientists engineered T cells to protect instead of kill, potentially enabling targeted treatments for autoimmune disease and ...