(THE CONVERSATION) Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body’s own healthy cells. This ...

The range of autoimmune diseases treatable with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy could be much broader than ...

Although researchers have suggested that SCG2 plays a role in immune response, its function and receptor were unknown. Laboratory experiments confirmed that SCG2 binds to LILRB4, kicking off a ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. T-cell inhibitory receptors and transcription ...

New research (the Ver-A-T1D trial) presented at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) (Vienna, 15-19 September) shows that slow-release (SR) verapamil ...

1Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 2Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Organ Donation and Transplant Immunology, Guangzhou, China.

2 Tianjin's Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin, People's Republic of China 3 Tianjin Key Laboratory of Digestive Cancer, Tianjin, People's Republic of China Background Fructose has been ...

Tumors are stressful places for cancer-fighting immune cells. Low oxygen, high acid levels, and other stressors put strain on mitochondria, the cell's energy factories, leading to T cell exhaustion ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), manmade chemicals that accumulate in the body over time, have been linked to liver disease and cancer, but it is not yet clear how they cause damage.

It's hard being in space. You're isolated from friends and loved ones, your mitochondria get damaged, you get dumber, and you might just get stranded for months at a time (and get under $1,500 for it) ...