Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have found that a cellular housekeeping mechanism called autophagy plays a major role ...

T cells are central to adaptive immunity, orchestrating targeted responses against infections and malignancies while forming a durable immunological memory. Memory T cells, particularly CD8+ subsets, ...

Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have identified a previously unknown pattern of organization in one ...

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Maria Curotto de Lafaille’s lab was trying to make human plasma cells in a dish. These weren’t just run-of-the-mill cells, though. The team was vying for something specific: plasma cells that churn ...

Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal ...

Scientists uncover 'striking' immune cell populations poised to fight SARS-CoV-2 in upper airway. Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have published the first-ever, in-depth analysis ...

A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a metabolic switch in the immune system's T cells that is essential to the generation of memory T cells - which confer lasting immunity to previously ...

Clearing out “aged” brain cells dramatically reduced seizures and restored memory in a new epilepsy study.