Regulatory T (T Reg) cells are essential for maintaining peripheral tolerance, preventing autoimmunity and limiting chronic inflammatory diseases. However, they also limit beneficial responses by ...

CD4 T helper cells are a type of white blood cell called a lymphocyte that serves an important role in your immune system. These cells help defend the body against infection by directing other "killer ...

To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, scientists sent tiny clumps of stem-cell derived brain cells called 'organoids' to the International Space Station. Microgravity is known to ...

After seven decades with no advances in the treatment of the genetic disorder classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), Neurocrine Biosciences has scored FDA approval for its first-in-class ...

Your immune cells are what they eat Scientists establish novel link between cell nutrition and identity, say targeting nutrient-dependent activity could improve immunotherapies Date: December 12 ...

Cancer cells often become unresponsive to multiple types of therapy. It emerges that these ‘cross-resistant’ tumour cells release lipids that reprogram cells called monocytes to stop them from ...