From influencing weight gain to supporting immune function, gut microbes do far more than digest food. They may even explain ...

Pneumoconiosis remains a prevalent occupational disease with limited treatment options. A new review study elucidates the ...

Last year, Ardem Patapoutian got a tattoo. An artist drew a tangled ribbon on his right arm, the diagram of a protein called Piezo. Patapoutian, ...

A new study published in the journal Science reveals that researchers who both publish papers and file patents—dubbed “Pasteur’s quadrant researchers”—produce work that is more novel and more ...

For decades, complex industries have relied on stock footage and talking heads to explain their work. But as the barrier ...

A 3D micro-Light Emitting Diode (LED) device has been developed that wraps around the pancreas like octopus tentacles, ...

Ready or not, the holiday shopping season is underway. Choosing the best Christmas gifts for the ones you love is either an ...

Vitamin C, zinc, and other compounds can help your immune system thrive. Eating superfoods with these vitamins and minerals may help your body fight infection and disease.

MIT researchers have discovered how an immune system molecule triggers neurons in a specific brain circuit to shut down social behavior in mice modeling infection. "I just can't make it tonight. You ...

CAR-T was developed to wipe out hard-to-treat blood cancers. But the cells that go bad in leukemias and lymphomas — immune ...

An evolutionary perspective on immune priming across plants and invertebrates highlights the roles of microbiomes and epigenetic regulation in shaping innate immune memory with promising applications ...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...